Title:

Great expectations: reflections on the 20th anniversary of Poland’s motorway construction rescue archaeology programme

Subtitle:

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 71 (2019)

Creator:

Czerniak, Lech ; Kośko, Aleksander

Contributor:

Gostyńska, Barbara - Tł.

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2019

Description:

il. ; 25 cm

Type of object:

Czasopismo/Artykuł

Subject and Keywords:

archeologia

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.

References:

Czerniak L. 2011. Dla kogo są wykopaliska? Profesjonaliści i społeczeństwo. In: A. Marciniak, D. Minta-Tworzowska and M. Pawleta (eds), Współczesne oblicza przeszłości. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2011, 177-186.
Czerniak L., Gierlach M. and Maciszewski R. 2006. The national program of the protection of archaeological monuments within the investment of the construction of motorways. The legislation, organizations and standards, Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists held in Kraków in 2006.
Grabowski M. 2012. Od Ośrodka Dokumentacji Zabytków do Narodowego Instytutu Dziedzictwa. Rewolucyjna zmiana czy procesowa kontynuacja zadań z zakresu archeologii? Ochrona Zabytków 1-2, 73-80.

Relation:

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

Volume:

71

Start page:

457

End page:

464

Resource type:

Tekst

Detailed Resource Type:

Artykuł

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

0081-3834 ; doi:10.23858/SA71.2019.017

Source:

IAiE PAN, sygn. P 244 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P 245 ; IAiE PAN, sygn. P 243 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Digitizing institution:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Original in:

Biblioteka Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN

Access:

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