Hi Anita,

For the UK, in 1999 the IFA conducted a survey called 'Profiling the
Profession'. The report is still online here -
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/training/profile.html

It estimated around 4500 full-time professional archaeologists in the UK.
As I recall, the exercise was repeated in 2003 - but I can't find the
report on the IFA website.

Of course, such processes open up lots of very interesting questions over
definitions, perhaps especially for students and amateur/avocational
archaeologists...

Dan
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Dr Dan Hicks MIFA
Lecturer and Graduate Tutor
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Bristol, UK.
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:08:50 -0700, Anita Cohen-Williams
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>How many archaeologists are there (roughly)? How many members in the
>various societies (their web sites do not say)?
>
>I am trying to figure out the market share of the "market" and cannot
>find any demographics.
>
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