On the outside looking in: what will Brexit mean for European archaeology?
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 08/09/2017

Eight years on from the global economic collapse and the hard years that followed, new crises have emerged. Once upon a time there were three assumptions on which Europe’s stability was based – that national borders were fixed and unchangeable, that European governments were increasingly democratic, and that the European Union would only move in the direction of expansion. These have all been shown to be false – in Crimea, in Turkey and in … Peterborough.
From the perspectives of two non-UK residents, we will look at the other side of the Brexit coin – what will Brexit mean for European archaeology outside the UK?
If we hadn’t had PPG16, the Valletta Convention would have looked very different – but those days are past now. How will the UK’s departure affect who works in European archaeology now and in the future? Will it affect who funds European archaeology?

Kenneth Aitchison, Landward Research; Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes