David Barreiro

[ES]En enero de 2010 el Consejo Rector del CSIC acordó la creación de un nuevo instituto de investigación, con sede en Santiago de Compostela, y la denominación de Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, con acrónimo Incipit – CSIC. El proyecto científico de este centro había sido elaborado por una comisión conjunta designada por el CSIC y la Xunta de Galicia con el fin de diseñar un centro mixto entre el CSIC y alguna de las universidades gallegas; en ese momento procedimental, la denominación provisional del instituto era la de “Centro de Ciencias del Patrimonio Cultural”, con acrónimo CCPC, que fue más tarde desechada cuando se decidió la creación de ese centro como instituto propio del CSIC. Aquí se ofrecen tres documentos complementarios entre sí, en entradas independientes de Digital.CSIC: una Síntesis del proyecto del Incipit, el Proyecto Científico completo, y el Anexo que contiene que el cuadro de personal previsto para ese instituto incluyendo el personal (procedente del Laboratorio de Patrimonio, LaPa, actualmente radicado en el IEGPS en Santiago de Compostela) que se incorporará al Incipit. [EN]In January 2010, the Board of Governors of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) agreed to create a new research institute, based in Santiago de Compostela, named the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit)-CSIC. The scientific project for this centre had been produced by a joint committee appointed by the CSIC and the Regional Government of Galicia (the Xunta) in order to design a mixed centre between the CSIC and one of the Galician universities; at this stage of the procedure, the provisional name of the institute was the “Centre for Cultural Heritage Sciences” (CCPC), which was later rejected when it was decided to create this centre as an institute that formed a part of the CSIC itself. Here we offer three documents that complement each other, in different entries in Digital.CSIC: a summary of the Incipit project, the full Scientific Project, and an Appendix containing details of the personnel planned for this institute, including the personnel (from the Heritage Laboratory or LaPa, currently located in the Padre Sarmiento Institute of Galician Studies in Santiago de Compostela) who will be joining the Incipit.

Societies today face multiple challenges stemming from the conflict between ‘market efficiency’ and ‘social welfare’ that are, in turn, the result of neoliberal policies affecting institutional legitimacy. Complex institutional logics associated with organisational responses are part of the early sociological debate about how organisations cope with established institutionalism in order to maintain legitimacy and survive. By employing an institutional framework and historical event sequencing approach, we aim to understand whether normative pressures can be understood to exert an influence of embeddedness and change. The paper analyses the emergence of Spanish contract archaeology after the 1990s. This new organisational pattern in the field of archaeology was a complex institutionalised process that gave rise to a new labour market. The economic crisis starting in 2008 has impacted this sector severely, to the extent that it is, at the time of writing, on the brink of extinction.

Contributing for a Sustainable Archaeology: The impact of the Big Recession on Commercial Archaeology and Heritage activities compels us as archaeologists to rethink the way we undertake archaeological practice and develop our profession. If you have got any ideas, initiatives, or case studies to experience new modes of existence of archaeological activity, come to present them in the session “Archaeology and Heritage on the Way to Sustainability”. The session will take place in the the 22nd Annual Meeting of the EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) to be held in Vilnius (Lithuania) from August 31 to September 4, 2016. The session statement can be found at the following link: http://eaavilnius2016.lt/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/116.pdf , but is also enclosed in the attached file. We encourage you to participate in this meeting, which we hope will be of interest, given the crossroads where European Archaeology is right now. Please submit your proposal through the link: https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/welcome.form?type=abstract&congress=152_EAA&c=bd4350a3-56f9-46d1-8d66-514d76e0eb3c). The deadline for proposals is 15 February 2016. Please send this message to those people who you think might be interested. [David Barreiro, Felipe Criado-Boado, Rocío Varela-Pousa (Institute of Heritage Sciences - CSIC, Spain) and Anita Synnestvedt (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)].