The article I read, talks about the MoLa, the Museum of London Archaeology. The article says that archaeology is not just some “dusty, hole-in-the-corner academic pursuit but big business”, because MoLA archaeologists need to compete with other archaeologists for work.
In the article, James Morris, an animal remains specialist says that archaeology is "the devil's jigsaw – half the pieces are missing and the bastard won't let you see the picture on the front", a jigsaw that the archaeologists are determined to solve (but that they never will solve completely), even if they have to work “against the clock and with accountants breathing down their neck”.
In the next paragraph of the article, the Roman finds specialist Angela Wardle talks about a Roman brooch that she is studying and the things she wants to do, in her own time, in order to find more clues about the brooch. Then she says that she needs to write an article about the brooch, because she needs to “justify what she does, what archaeologists do”, because the irony of archaeology is that it usually destroys what it is attempting to preserve, which is why publication is so important.
Finally, the article ends asking Wardle if she misses her time in the field, but she says that she did miss the digging for a while, but now is used to the office work, because is dry, warm and clean studying the remains.
Well it sounds like an interesting article.. And is very related to your lovely future.. Good luck with the devil's jigsaw
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