Abstract
‘Sustainability’ is a concept that suffuses the present. Policy initiatives require ‘sustainability’ as one of the criteria by which projects are judged. In recognition of their role as interpreters and custodians of the past, archaeologists are one of the many groups contributing to the creation of ‘a sustainable historic environment’ and ‘sustainable communities’. Accordingly, sustainability is a concept that we perhaps need to incorporate into our activities as educators of future good citizens and into our training for the profession of archaeology. This paper seeks to address this issue, particularly in the light of Themes and Sessions relating to both sustainability and education at WAC8, but where the link between them remains unexamined.
Highlights
KEY WORDSThis paper explores the understanding of ‘sustainability’ as it applies in archaeology and archaeological education
Resume: La durabiliteest un concept qui baigne le present
This paper explores the understanding of ‘sustainability’ as it applies in archaeology and archaeological education
Summary
This paper explores the understanding of ‘sustainability’ as it applies in archaeology and archaeological education. I offer here a series of questions rather than a set of answers: I do not offer a course outline nor even an approach to a course outline, but rather an attempt to locate the issue of sustainability as it may arise in relation to archaeological topics. It will be for individual institutions in particular countries to take the ideas presented here and adapt them to their own context: since I am a UK citizen working at a UK institution, it will be difficult for me to ignore this entirely, and so for examples there will be explicit reference to that particular context
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