PaleoWest buys Commonwealth Heritage Group
PaleoWest, one of the largest Cultural Resource Management (CRM) companies in the United States has bought one of their major competitors, Commonwealth Heritage Group.
FAME AGM and Forum 2022: A non-archaeologist’s perspective
Merchant Taylors Hall, York The Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers had their annual AGM and Forum on 16th and 17th June in two wonderful old buildings in York, Barley Hall and the Merchant Taylors Hall, thanks to York Archaeological Trust. Over two warm summer days representatives from roughly 70 of the main commercial archaeology […]
State of the Archaeological Market 2020
Landward Research have been working with FAME, the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers, to produce the State of the Archaeological Market 2020 report.
State of the Archaeological Market 2019
The report on the size and direction of UK commercial archaeology in 2019, written by Kenneth Aitchison and Doug Rocks-Macqueen, has been published by FAME. Download the report here State of the Archaeological Market 2019
The Size of the UK Heritage Compliance Sector
A new report, produced by Landward Research Ltd and Heritage Business International has been published. The Size of the U.K. Heritage Compliance Sector: 1998-2017 with forecast to 2022 This report, which identifies how much was being spent on commercial archaeology services in the UK in 2017 and provides long-term trend data covering each year since […]
Breaking New Ground reviewed in Arqueologia Publica
Breaking New Ground: how professional archaeology works has been reviewed in Volume 4 – 2014 of Arqueologia Publica. The full review is at http://www.arqueologiapublica.es/descargas/1418066119.pdf REVIEWS Doug ROCKS-MACQUEEN Breaking New Ground: How Professional Archaeology Works [Kenneth Aitchison] Landward Research 2013 Kindle Edition The first thing a reader will notice about this book is the lack […]
Museums Journal Conversation
Kenneth Aitchison was 'in conversation' with Mike Heyworth of the Council for British Archaeology in issue 115/07 of the Museums Journal (published on 4th February 2015) discussing the launch of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/comment/04032015-the-conversation The conversation Mike Heyworth; Kenneth Aitchison , Issue 115/17, 04.02.2015 How will the launch of the Chartered […]
Job Losses in Archaeology – October 2010 and January 2011
Landward Research have completed a report for IfA and FAME on archaeological employment in the second half of 2010; the full report can be read here – Job Losses in Archaeology October 2010 January 2011 The number of people in archaeological employment fell considerably over the six months from 1 July 2010 to 1 January 2011. It […]