Word: ica
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...Institute for Conservation of Archaeology (ICA), which for seven years carried out environmental impact studies for the Peabody Museum, will shortly complete its final projects before it becomes extinct itself...
...second time within a year, another Ivy League university has shut down its archaeological contracting office. While Commencement exercises are being held in Harvard Yard. Harvard's Institute for Conservation Archaeology. (ICA) in the Peabody Museum will quietly be preparing to close its doors--following closely the demise of Brown University's archaeology lab last year. Both labs found themselves subject to the same common denominator: the projected profit margin...
Last month, however, the ICA held a press conference at the Charlestown Navy Yard to discuss and display finds from the Chelsea and Water Streets section of Charlestown, near the gates to the Navy Yard. Significantly, the finds challenged conventional research conclusions about prehistoric and colonial life in Boston. However, regardless of such timely funds, Harvard has decided to close the ICA "because of doubts about its long-term financial strength." (according to a March 23 article in The Harvard Crimson...
...foundation grants, a marginal program such as contract archaeology is easy to cut. Brown closed it Public Archaeology Laboratory (PAL) when the lab could no longer generate enough big-budget contracts to cover staff salaries and make a tidy profit for the university. Harvard is following suit with the ICA, despite its lower overhead. As an ICA staff member is reported to have said. "There's no good reason [to close the ICA], other than lack of interest from Harvard...
...history, contracting diggers have learned an ironic lesson: all things do, in fact, pass. Archaeological sites are as diverse as the people who inhabited them or the diggers who rescue them, and the romance of the profession or the site rarely meets public expectations. The demise of the ICA at Harvard--and the PAL at Brown--links them with the ebb and flow of the sites they studied, all of which were once hives of activity, now dormant. No doubt, in a field that preys upon itself, some future doctoral candidate will write her or his discretion on "the rise...