28. The Long View

Climate change and deforestation causing ecological collapse, recession, poverty, famine, lawlessness, religious and internecine warfare, foreign interventions -- Scotland certainly was a mess in the 17th and 18th Centuries.[1]. It was not a place you would want to visit, but luckily others have visited for you, and left accounts of their travels. Seeing the past through contemporary eyes is about as good as it gets, and it has become part of a highly specialised form of archaeology known as history.

And now for the news, . . in Turkish

As a respite from postholes and the recession, I bring you some light relief from a Turkish Website with auto generated content. The site was in meltdown last time I visited, so in the interests of promoting the web a source of reliable information and scholarship, and in a spirit of international understanding- I give you verbatim this version of my last article as it appeared on a Turkish website:

1300 REDUNDANCIES IN UK ARCHAEOLOGY; THE PLIGHT OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS IS RAISED AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.


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As an archaeologist in a apocalyptic state, we have motionless to post an comment of a brand new contention in a House of Lords about a apocalyptic state of British archaeology, general readers unknown with a investiture competence find it engaging to see who contributes to such a discuss . . . .

1300 redundancies in UK archaeology; The plight of archaeologists is raised at the highest level.

As an archaeologist in a dire state, I have decided to post an account of a recent discussion in the House of Lords about the dire state of British archaeology, international readers unfamiliar with the institution may find it interesting to see who contributes to such a debate . . . .

On Monday afternoon the effects of the recession in the building industry on archaeology was raised in the House of Lords by the Liberal Democrat peer the Earl of Glasgow, eliciting a somewhat confused response from a government spokesman Lord Davies. In a House of Lords question he asked the government;

What steps they are taking to secure the future of
professional archaeology in the United Kingdom, and in particular to mitigate the effect on archaeologists of the recent contraction in the building industry.