Dear Geoff Carver,
I'd be interested in any stuff you received on archaeological admin. in
Britain. I have been working and studyiing in Britain for 5 years but
still remain fuzzy about the variety of archaeological bodies and their
inter-relationships. If your wife is interested in these questions in
relation to other countries there is useful material on Ireland at
wysiwyg://46/http://www.heritagecouncil.ie, especially in a report which
can be found there on Archaeology and Forestry in ireland. This provides
good information on the Heritage Council and a useful summary of other
heritage bodies in the country.
I don't know why you are looking for this information but some kind of
comparison with organisational structures in Ireland could be useful
given the fact that a lot of Irish archaeologists have identified with
traditional German archaeology as being real archaeology. This goes back
in particular to the time when Adolf Mahr was director of the National
Museum of Ireland in the 1930s. The relationship between his empiricism
and Nazism still remains to be unpicked as does its effects on
state-centred archaeology in the country.
Michael Tierney
Department of Archaeology,
University of Wales, Lampeter
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