ABSTRACT
Project management has been the focus of much discussion in recent years. This chapter considers the way in which project management has been approached in a specifically archaeological context in the UK in recent years, and looks in particular at a document, Management of Archaeological Projects (English Heritage 1991a) which has aroused considerable interest in the archaeological profession since its publication. This document, widely known as MAP2 was, prior to this volume, the only published literature available on the subject of archaeological project management. This chapter will examine the background to, and reasons for the production of, MAP2, outline the approach to archaeological project management which is exemplified by MAP2 and consider the implications of the document for the theory and practice of archaeological management in the light of experience gained since 1991. The chapter will conclude with a brief discussion of the changing relationship between academic concerns and managerial ones in British archaeology since the early 1970s.
