Professional Practice Papers

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

• Delivering public benefit - CIfA, HS2 and Sadie Watson 2021 Digital and hard copy available

• Professional Archaeology: a guide for clients 2021. Theme: Innovations: new ways to deliver social value through archaeology Digital and limited hard copy

• Principles of cultural heritage impact assessment - CIfA, IEMA and IHBC 2021 Digital only

• An introduction to professional ethics - Gerry Wait, 2017. ISBN 978-0-948393-26-6 Digital and hard copy available

• Updated guidelines to the standards for recording human remains - Piers D Mitchell and Megan Brickley, 2017 Digital and hard copy available
  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

• An introduction to providing career entry training in your organisation - CIfA, 2014 (revised 2021) Further information about the Training Toolkit. Digital only

• An introduction to drawing archaeological pottery, revised edition - Lesley Collett, 2017, ISBN 978-0-948393-25-9 Digital and hard copy available

• Employing people with disabilities: good practice guidance for archaeologists - Tim Phillips and John Creighton, 2010, ISBN 978- Digital only

• Disaster management planning for archaeological archives - Kenneth Aitchison, 2004, ISBN 0948393904 Digital only

• Guidelines to the Standards for Recording Human Remains - Megan Brickley and Jacqueline I McKinley, 2004, ISBN 0948 398 88 Digital only

• Archaeological reconstruction: illustrating the past - John Hodgson 2001, ISBN 0948 393 17 3 Digital only

• 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.

• IfA Wales/Cymru. 2008. Cyflwyno Fframwaith Ymchwil Ar Gyfer Archaeoleg Cymru/Introducing a Research Framework for the Archaeology of Wales, produced by the IfA Wales/Cymru group on behalf of the archaeological profession of Wales (in conjunction with National Museum Wales, Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cambrian Archaeological Associates, Cardiff University, CPAT, CBA Wales, Countryside Council for Wales, Denbighshire County Council, Dyfed Archaeological Trust, Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, The National Trust, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Trysor, University or Wales; Lampeter, University of Wales; Newport, Cadw, Welsh Assembly Government).