Commercial archaeology is curiously dependent on economic swings, but inverted it seems.
As the financial crisis makes governments spend record sums to prevent an economic meltdown, archaeologists will be among the first to benefit.
Today, the German government alone decided to spend an additional 50 billion (!) Euros. Of this sum, an astonishing 17,3 billion Euro will be invested in infrastructure such as roads and railway, between now and 2010. (Source: http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/konjunkturpaket248.html)
Will there be enough qualified archaeologists to carry out the work coming their way by next year?
I am wondering if anybody has comparable figures for new investments in infrastructure in other countries (such as the UK), and what that might mean for commercial archaeology.
C
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