Building Capacity in Human Osteoarchaeology for an Archaeological Services Company

考古学在很大程度上是由“微型组织”主导的领域，其中75%的组织只雇用10名或更少的员工。这意味着许多公司，如site Archaeology Ltd.，必须向专业顾问寻求进一步的专业知识，因为他们的规模限制了他们可以在内部提供的技能提升。该项目展示了谢菲尔德大学和现场考古有限公司之间的合作，旨在帮助专业考古学家发展他们的知识基础，并帮助商业考古公司扩大他们的专业知识。具体来说，该项目旨在将新的考古学毕业生带入商业领域，同时最大限度地降低学术和商业风险。在安德鲁·张伯伦教授的指导下，新毕业生劳伦·麦金太尔（Lauren McIntyre）对一组重要的人类骨骼遗骸进行了挖掘后的分析。麦金太尔是人类骨骼学和葬礼考古学的硕士研究生。劳伦随后与骨考古学和历史数据来源密切合作，发表了新的发现。在这个项目下，应届毕业生可以提高他们对骨考古学的认识和理解，同时现场考古有限公司提高了他们的研究能力，并获得了一个新的“内部”专业知识库，供将来使用。

Archaeology is a field largely dominated by 'micro-organisations', 75% of which employ just ten or fewer staff. This means many, such as On-Site Archaeology Ltd., must look to specialist consultants for further expertise as their size limits the skill advancements that they can provide in-house. This project shows collaboration between the University of Sheffield and On-Site Archaeology Ltd that aims to help professional archaeologists to develop their knowledge base and to help commercial archaeology companies to expand their expertise. Specifically, the project aims to bring new archaeology graduates into the commercial sector whilst minimising the academic and business risk.Under the supervision of Professor Andrew Chamberlain new graduate Lauren McIntyre, a recent Masters graduate in Human Osteology and Funeral Archaeology, conducted a post-excavation analysis of a specific important assemblage of human skeletal remains. Lauren then worked closely with osteoarchaeological and historical data sources to publish the new findings.Under this project a new graduate could improve their knowledge and understanding of osteoarchaeology whilst On-Site Archaeology Ltd. improved their research capacity and gained a new bank of 'in-house' expertise to draw upon in the future.