Perché in Italia c’è improvvisamente una domanda così elevata di archeologi?
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/08/29/italys-eu-recovery-funded-construction-boom-sparks-high-demand-for-archaeologists
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Perché in Italia c’è improvvisamente una domanda così elevata di archeologi?
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/08/29/italys-eu-recovery-funded-construction-boom-sparks-high-demand-for-archaeologists
di euronews-english
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They found the Stargate and won’t say it
Why are you asking this, the answer is in the TITLE of the article!
Increase in funds to build stuff. means lots of stuff getting build.
when you build something, it’s by law required to do archeology research, especially in a country like Italy where you can’t dig a hole without hitting some Roman artifacts
As the article said, because of some EU Funds for the archaelogical sites. The fact is that in Italy every single time they try to build something and you dig, you find some old road, or house, or tombs and so on. We do not even know how much history is hidden underground. For those who do not know, the surface today is several metres higher than thousand of years ago, because of floods and mudslides, even more in Italy which is a peninsula crossed by mountains.
I don’t think people in Northern Europe get it.
Covid funds -> lots of new construction (hospitals, roads, metro extensions, etc) -> high possibly of new archaeological finds, which by law have to be sorted by the archaeological service, processed, and either put in museums or incorporated into some sort of public display on site.
And in order not to delay construction for years and years and years -> archaeologists, help wanted
>Why is there suddenly such a high demand for archaeologists in Italy?
They re looking for our future…
When there had not been a high demand for archeologists in Italy?
By the law, everytime you did up something that looks like historical, you have to stop and let archeologists evaluate its relevance. You may be forced to preserve it on site, or to move it elsewhere, the proper way. Or they go “ok nothing special here, go on”.
And that happens pretty much everytime you dig. That’s probably reason #1 why it’s so unpredictably expensive to build stuff in Italy.
I don’t think it’s about funding much, it’s more like that since October ’22 we’ve been working double shifts, to do all we couldn’t do during COVID-19 (March ’20 – June ’22). October ’22 is the time when companies got confident there would not be a lockdown in Fall/Winter.
The real question is whether the demand can be covered by local archaeology students or not. I have studied 2 semesters at La Sapienza in Rome and I believe there are plenty of students who’d be up for the job. But a typical pay pre-covid was ~50€ for a full day. Working for 7€ an hour in 36°C fucking sucks. I did that in Germany for half a year at 17€/h with Master degree and I loved it. But the work was still too tough and stressful for that pay. In the winter we hack the frozen soil until the wrists hurt. In the spring swamp swimming and in the summer you try to not contaminate the skeletons with your own constantly dripping sweat. It’s ok when you’re young but try doing that past 40.
The article mentioned 100€ a day, but the living cost in Rome isnt cheap and for a university degree, the pay is still shit.