What issues should the UK-wide Strategy address?
It is far from clear whether this question is intended to produce a detailed answer setting out specific research themes or whether some more general statements are expected. There are so many and so varied a range of potential research questions facing archaeology that it would be impossible to list them comprehensively in a brief response such as this. We assume therefore that this is not a request for a detailed research agenda for British archaeology as a whole but for general lines of enquiry which might have wide applicability. At the general, strategic, level RESCUE is concerned (as noted above) that archaeology is becoming a divided discipline, even at a time when the notion of Historic Environment’ should serve as an integrative structuring principle within the discipline. We note particularly the growing divide between commercial archaeology (specifically the consultancy sector) with its disavowal of the significance of research (paradoxically, even while those carrying out f
