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there is/was a working group in the EAA trying to find out just who is/is not an archaeologist across europe
they sent out a questionaire a few years ago
one of the replies from italy said that "only professors of classical archaeology" are archaeologists in italy
in germany there is a fairly clear distinction between the academic faculties of "Archäologie" and "Ur/Vor- und Frühgeschichte" (prehistory & classical archaeology), and some universities actually have 3 or 4 archaeology departments (bonn also has a separate "biblical archaeology" and "egyptology" dep'ts)
in germany also, you had to have an MA to be an archaeologist (because germany did not have BAs until recently forced to do so by the treaty of bologna), and i was always told i wasn't an archaeologist, despite my BA in archaeology from the university of calgary, because i didn't have an MA and had not studied latin...
then you have the difference between the academically-trained "archaeologist" and the practical-experienced "techniker" and the unskilled labourers who do most of the digging...
the IFA in england is trying to set themselves up as a professional organisation, like the bar organisations for lawyers or college of physicians, etc., i think with plans for making membership mandatory by 2010
the british tend to be a bit more pragmatic in terms of academic vs practical qualifications; i know some very good archaeologists from there who never studied, just worked their way up as "circuit diggers"
there are also some very good professors with BAs...
what would happen if, say, martin carver (university of york, currently editor of antiquity) applied for an application to dig in germany...? i don't know...
the french have another system: you used to have to be a member of a sort of union (AFAN), but there has been so much chaos since trying to reform the system that i really don't know what's happening there any more
then there are various regulations about who can get an excavation permit
"Denis Gojak" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> I may come to regret asking this, but...
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