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Article: Archaeology at the crossroads. (efforts to make archaeology more 'people-friendly')
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- History Today
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- January 1, 1998
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Archaeology has changed, is changing, but needs to change even more. This was the consensus among speakers at a conference held in November at Lincoln's history-layered castle and cathedral hilltop. The conference, promoted by the English Historic Towns Forum and the Association of Local Government Archaeology Officers, came almost exactly seven years after an earlier EHTF conference there, at which the then responsible minister, Lady Blatch, unveiled a new planning policy guidance note on archaeology.
That guidance note, `PPG16', has revolutionised the aims and practice of field archaeology in Britain. It laid down that developers, by an extension of the ...