CIfA publishes a range of professional practice papers. Downloadable copies are available to members only please login to view and some are also available to non-members for free below.
Professional Practice Papers
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Professional Archaeology: a guide for clients 2021 to 2023. Various themes. Digital
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Delivering public benefit - CIfA, HS2 and Sadie Watson 2021 Digital and hard copy
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Principles of cultural heritage impact assessment - CIfA, IEMA and IHBC 2021 Digital only
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An introduction to professional ethics - Gerry Wait, 2017. ISBN 978-0-948393-26-6 Digital and hard copy
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Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains - Piers D Mitchell and Megan Brickley, 2017 Digital and hard copy
Please also refer to 2004 Guidelines to the Standards for Recording Human Remains below. An extended document, with a full bibliography and more images, for chapter 11 'Guidance on recording palaeopathology (abnormal variation)' by Charlotte Roberts, is available here, or sent as pdf by contacting c.a.roberts [at] durham.ac.uk. -
Professional archaeology: a guide for clients - CIfA 2015 Digital and hard copy available
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An introduction to providing career entry training in your organisation - CIfA, 2014 (revised 2021) Further information about the Training Toolkit. Digital only
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An introduction to drawing archaeological pottery, revised edition - Lesley Collett, 2017, ISBN 978-0-948393-25-9 Digital and hard copy available
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Disaster management planning for archaeological archives - Kenneth Aitchison, 2004, ISBN 0948393904 Digital only
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Archaeological reconstruction: illustrating the past - John Hodgson 2001, ISBN 0948 393 17 3 Digital only
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Crypt archaeology: an approach - Margaret Cox, 2001, ISBN 0948 393 16 5 Digital only
Members can request hard copies for free and they are £10 each for non-members. Digital copies are free for members to download and £5 each for non-members.
Non-members can email admin [at] archaeologists.net to order copies.
Books
- Brown, Duncan H. 2011. Archaeological Archives: A guide to best practice in creation, compilation, transfer and curation, Archaeological Archives Forum, ISBN 0948393912. Hard copies are available free of charge to members and £3 to non-members.
