Promoting the Profession is a collection of papers honouring the work of Pete Hinton, CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists until his retirement in 2024. Members of CIfA, office holders, friends and colleagues have come together with personal narratives, reviews and critical appraisals to provide an insight into the rapid development of modern day archaeology. Today a technologically advanced profession, its members have turned to setting standards, establishing ethical codes, creating guidance and providing an influential platform through the creation of an increasingly professional institute, CIfA. It has been change at breakneck speed and far from a linear pathway. The contributors to this volume illustrate the nature of contemporary practice and reflect on the challenges as the profession embarks on an amenity turn exploring the benefits of archaeology in areas of well-being, traumatic stress, community cohesion and place making.
While the book is intended to highlight the growth and progress of the Institute during Pete's tenure, several authors have taken the opportunity to consider the future. This is a book for all, for those in commercial and conservation practice, for those who teach, for those in the field, at the microscope and the keyboard. This is part of the CIfA narrative, a contribution to the literature of professionalisation and to the cultural history of a key discipline in contemporary Europe.
Michael Dawson is a Heritage Director at RPS (UK and Ireland). He is editor of the international journal 'Historic Environment Policy and Practice' and is panel lecturer with Oxford University Dept. of Continuing Education. He wrote his DPhil at Oxford on the preservation and display of mosaics. He has excavated in Britain, Bulgaria and Romania, publishing widely both in Britain and eastern Europe and has been instrumental in making the case for the Roşia Montană World Heritage nomination. He has published on Roman landscapes including 'Prehistoric, Roman and Post Roman Landscapes of the Great Ouse Valley' (CBA 2000). He is a former member of the National Trust's Chedworth Research and Publication Board, has been Chairman of the Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), Chair of the Committee for Working Practices in Archaeology (CWPA) and is a council member of the International Cultural Heritage Practice Group (IPSIG).
Gerry Wait has over 35 years of experience as an archaeologist and anthropologist specialising in heritage assessments for Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs). He has worked in over 30 countries, in Europe, Asia and Africa. Gerry has been active in the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and in the Committee on Professional Associations in Archaeology of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA). He is on the editorial board of the Society of American Archaeology's Advances in Archaeological Practice Journal. He is on the Register of Professional Archaeologists (USA) and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
