R.I.P Lewis Roberts Binford (1930-2011)

[moonburn]

Archaeology is almost as political as the field it covers!

do not mistake archeology for history they are 2 diferent fields the only part in archeology where there is politics is in the funds distribution and normally the teams have very litle impact in and the polititians and college/university leaders normally decide according to seneriority previous results and historical interests (ofc thats my experience and here only public fundings from institutes and university´s suport archeological diggings and researche )

[Moros]

do not mistake archeology for history they are 2 diferent fields the only part in archeology where there is politics is in the funds distribution and normally the teams have very litle impact in and the polititians and college/university leaders normally decide according to seneriority previous results and historical interests (ofc thats my experience and here only public fundings from institutes and university´s suport archeological diggings and researche )

But even that can have quite an impact. Talk to Zarax about Sicilian archeology in Italy for example.

[moonburn]

herm consider archeology in the basque country (something like that where the central goverments prefer to ignore a few parts since there´s nationalist movements who could use the information gathered to distort the findings ?)

but even then the politics go into the historians who are suposed to interpret the evidences and findings and not the archeological work per se

ofc i have only worked in a few dig sites as a volunteer (i worked with a teacher who as cracked the writtings of the southern iberians when i was in the algarve) and the chaminé mound/mount in my land where there´s a few roman ruins but as i said i´m not that deep into it i know that normally dig teams are hard to get and the funding ain´t much so it´s mostly volunteer work at least in portugal