RÉGÉSZET AZ EZREDFORDULÓ UTÁN: A RÉGÉSZET HELYE ÉS SZEREPE A 21. SZÁZADI FEJLETT PIACGAZDASÁGBAN ÉS A TUDÁSALAPÚ TÁRSADALOMBAN - ALTERNATÍV LEHETŐSÉGEK A RÉGÉSZETI FELADATELLÁTÁSBAN: EGY EURÓPAI KÖRÚT TAPASZTALATAI
ARCHAEOLOGY AFTER THE MILLENNIUM: THE POSITION OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE MARKET ECONOMY AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY OF THE 21th CENTURY - ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: THE OBSERVATIONS OF A EUROPEAN ROUND TRIP

Summary/Abstract: Doubtlessly, Hungary went over a serious political, economic- financial and social change in the last decades. This obviously also had an impact on the archaeological profession, although some archaeologists supposed that it is exempt or they are able to influence this process. Instead of being a science-based discipline, archaeology gradually became a development-led service. The structure of the professional organisations, however, did not change. The generated problems in archaeology remained mostly unsolved, leading to a critical mass. Hungary has one of the strongest cultural heritage legislation in Europe, millions of Euros were spent on archaeology in the last two decades, and the institutional system is also one of the most ancient and strongest on the continent. However, the country still does not have a well-working official database of archaeological sites, the use of high-tech instruments and generally the use of digital technology in data-capturing is rather accidental, the money spent on innovation is not effectively used, and the validity of the data (the results of an excavation) we intend to document with the most recent methods are often questionable. Therefore, the government decided in 2007 to reorganise the archaeological organisations. The intentions was to create central power management (for man-power, innovation, standards, etc.) in order to improve the generation and dissemination of information and to build up a coherent system of institutions, to ensure leading position for cultural heritage in a knowledge- based society. The first step is done, but the process is far from being finished.

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