@misc{Czerniak_Lech_Great_2019,
 author={Czerniak, Lech and Kośko, Aleksander},
 volume={71},
 editor={Gostyńska, Barbara - Tł.},
 address={Kraków},
 journal={Sprawozdania Archeologiczne},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 language={eng},
 abstract={This paper examines the political, legal and organisational aspects of rescue excavations carried out in advance of motorway construction in Poland during the last 20 years. This analysis tries to determine why this comprehensive and ambitious programme was downgraded ten years after its launch and now bears little resemblance to the original concept. Why, despite the existence of an appropriate legal framework and the supervision, was it possible to breach the basic provisions of the Malta Convention (La Valetta, 1992), which states that rescue excavations should be governed by the principles of scientific research? The authors believe that the successful implementation of complex, long-term and costly projects funded by the public purse does not depend solely on having legal and organisational structures in place. Critical factors, particularly in countries emerging from authoritarian rule, include the political will of the government, a lack of public engagement with archaeology and the absence of widely accepted professional standards in archaeological practice.},
 type={Text},
 title={Great expectations: reflections on the 20th anniversary of Poland’s motorway construction rescue archaeology programme},
 URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/Content/236681/120481.pdf},
 keywords={the Malta Convention, archaeological heritage, rescue archaeology, rescue excavations},
}