In the present context, Dam Archaeologist might be an amusing job
title...

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I may come to regret asking this, but...

Various groups do sometimes take on the name <something>
archaeologists,
like Geoff's example of airplane archaeologists [see also the book by
Bruce
Robertson- Aviation Archaeology: a collector's guide to aeronautical
relics
1983]  but are there any countries, states or other jurisdictions where
the
term archaeologist is restricted from general use by statute, such as
usually applies to doctor and architect [at least in Australia]?  In
New
South Wales anyone can be an archaeologist but regulation sets close
limits
on which of these can be issued with an excavation permit, based on
academic
qualifications and relevant experience.

I imagine industrial archaeology/ist has as long or longer claim to use
of
the title than historical archaeologist [see discussion in one of the
first
issues of Historical Archaeology].  While we might scoff at people
writing
down plane numbers or railway archaeologists who are on first name
terms
with every rivet, is this essentially different to what some
artefact-expert
archaeologists beloved and caressed by academia and CHM do anyway?

Your thoughts on a humid Friday are most welcome

Denis Gojak


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----- Original Message -----
From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: 2007 SHA symposium


in the UK there seems to be a fairly healthy group of "airplane
archaeologists"
someone named alan gough wrote a final paper on them for bournemouth
polytechnic (before it became bournemouth university), and decided it
wasn't
really archaeology (mostly looking for the registration numbers on the
engines of spitfires buried in fields)
there are also various airfields, etc., on the protected monuments
list, and
english heritage put out a fairly good booklet a few years ago about
ww2
sites
here in germany there are a lot of concrete bomb shelters in various
city
centres; these are huge block-like towers that used to have
anti-aircraft
guns on top of them; my understanding was that most of them are still
standing only because their reinforced concrete made them too hard to
tear
down (one exception being either in tiergarten or zoologischer garten
in
berlin)
so: besides using planes, there are also remains from installations
designed
for shooting them down...
peenemunde also has quite a good centre on V1/2 construction & testing

"william McAlexander" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> My bad,
> I should quit trying to send these things out at 3:30 in the
morning.
>
> By aerial resources, I ment projects or research in the aerospace
field.