Building Capacity in Human Osteoarchaeology for an Archaeological Services Company

考古学是一个主要由“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，如现场考古有限公司，必须寻求专业顾问的进一步专业知识，因为他们的规模限制了他们可以在内部提供的技能进步。该项目展示了谢菲尔德大学和On-Site Archaeology Ltd之间的合作，旨在帮助专业考古学家发展他们的知识库，并帮助商业考古公司扩展他们的专业知识。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Andrew Chamberlain教授的监督下，新毕业的Lauren McIntyre，一位最近的人类骨骼学和葬礼考古学硕士毕业生，对一个特定的重要人类骨骼遗骸组合进行了挖掘后分析。Lauren随后与骨考古学和历史数据源密切合作，发表了新的发现。在这个项目下，新毕业生可以提高他们对骨考古学的知识和理解，同时On-Site Archaeology Ltd.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，以供未来借鉴。

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.