TPO 16 The United Kingdom sometimes referred to as Britain has a long and rich history of human settlement Traces of buildings tools and art can be found from periods going back many thousands of years from the Stone Age through the Bronze Age the Iron Ag

The article and the lecture both about the Britain's archeology policies regarding the archeologly sites and state of professionals on this field. The author of the reading believes there are three problems regarding archeology in Britain. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. She is of the opinion that new guidelines from the government improved the state of archeology in Britain.
First of all, the author suggests that lots of crucial archeology sites were destroyed by construction projects. It is mentioned that due to the population growh and demand for developing cites, towns, and so on have had negative impact on the artificats that they basically did not maintain the artificats.
The argument is refuted by the lecturer. She says nowadays construction sites are carefully examind, and by law if they find any artificat or archeological sites, builders, local government and archeologists preserve the site and construct around it or record the sites that are about to destroyed.
Secondly, the article posits that there is not enough fund to support archeological research. The article notes only a few vital historical sites are permitted to be studied while leaving many other sites without any support, The lecturer, however, casts doubt on this by asserting that by the new government policy, the construction company must pay for the archeological invesitations. The lecturer elaborates on this by mentioning that all the works related to these investigations and later studies must be carried out by the support of the construction companies.
Finally, it is stated that having a proffesion in archeology is difficult to maintain. The author establishes that exception of universities and government agencies, there are very few archeology job positions. Hence, usually people who pursue archeology change their career eventually. The lecturer, on the other hand, opposes that due to the above policy, the are lots of paid works regarding archeology. She puts for the idea that experts in archeology are hired in all the sites in construction works. Such as investigation, and if find any artifacts, report to the government, and etc.