Major changes in the global economy have affected and will continue to affect our lives.
Both at face value and as a collective syndrome, the 'crisis' clearly impacts on the practice of archaeology, on its practitioners, and ultimately on the knowledge we produce about the past.
This webpage proposes to monitor some of these effects, on a country by country basis, on four overlapping themes (see more details in 'submit information', below):
    (a) Research funding and priorities
    (b) Professional employment and skills
    (c) Conservation and public outreach, and
    (d) Heritage management, policies and legislation
In seeking and submitting information on these themes, remember that:
- Each country have their initial conditions which need to be clearly understood.
- Each country is responding through different measures, with different anticipated and unforeseen effects.
- The 'crisis' can neither account for nor excuse everything that is going on: other processes and patterns need to be taken on board.
 
Information in this website is open to comments, periodically updated and reviewed to highlight possible trends. This will serve us to better grasp the immediate and long term effects of the crisis - and possibly contribute to archaeology's bouncing back.