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Breaking New Ground – price reduced
Breaking New Ground: how professional archaeology works, Kenneth Aitchison’s 2012 contemporary history of professional archaeology in the UK, how it developed and what the key organisations and sites have been – is now reduced in price. It’s now available through amazon.co.uk for only £0.99. a good, exhaustive guide and update for the archaeologist and non archaeologist in understanding how archaeology in the UK has developed Stratman, October 2012 PRICE UPDATE – as of 3rd August 2017, Amazon are also providing a £1 Amazon Video (AV) Reward for purchaser, a discount against an eligible purchase – so currently pay £0.99, get £1.00 back!
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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 of a hardcopy or softcopy editions. That is because the author, Kenneth Aitchison, has forgone the slower process of print publication and has jumped into the exciting new world of digital publishing. This piece is completely digital and can be downloaded from Amazon currently at ₤2.87. Though do not let the medium or the price…
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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 Institute for Archaeologists affect community projects? Kenneth Aitchison is the executive director of Landward Research; Mike Heyworth is the director of the Council for British Archaeology Dear Mike: It was a pleasure to see you at the launch of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (Cifa). It’s been a long time coming – at least…
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Discovering the Archaeologists of the World
Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe 2014 has shown that measuring archaeologists’ capabilities is a tool that can be used to plan for the development of the profession, development that is necessary to enhance to protection and interpretation of the global archaeological resource. A special issue of Archaeologies: the Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (vol. 10, no. 3) entitled “Discovering the Archaeologists of the World” has been published by WAC, containing two articles by Landward Research Ltd staff. Kenneth Aitchison was the guest editor for this volume, which included five articles, all of which were written by contributors to the Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project. Editorial: Discovering the Archaeologists of the…
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Presentation at Osaka Museum of History
Kenneth Aitchison, the Executive Director of Landward Research Ltd, was honoured to be invited to visit Osaka and to make a public presentation at the Osaka Museum of History to the Kansai Meeting of the Society of Archaeological Studies on the topic of Professional Practice in United Kingdom Archaeology. Download PowerPoint presentation (text in English and Japanese, 18.0Mb): Japkansai This included discussion of the structural and professional differences between archaeological practice in the UK and Japan, and continued into the discussion of the proposed Discovering the Archaeologists of Europe project – and how this could be part of a Discovering the Archaeologists of the World, looking at archaeological practice comparatively in many…
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new publication – Breaking New Ground: how archaeology works
Landward Research have published Kenneth Aitchison’s “Breaking New Ground: how archaeology works“. This book, available on Kindle, is a contemporary history of the last twenty years of professional archaeological practice in the United Kingdom, charting the progression of archaeology since the publication of PPG 16 and then the effects of the economic downturn since 2008. It also sets out a history of paid archaeology, from Pitt-Rivers’ appointment as the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments in 1882 through to the rescue ‘revolution’ of the 1970s and beyond. It is available for purchase here for £2.87. Who works as a professional archaeologist, what do they do and who do they work…
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Breaking New Ground
