Greek archaeologists are allocated on the basis of their working relationship to two basic groups: permanent and contract employees (private-law employment relationship). Current thesis focuses its research gaze upon the second group, contract archaeologists, and attempts to investigate, through an approach of archaeological ethnography and auto-ethnography, issues of correlation between the labour routine of the specific group and the formation of domestic archaeological science, setting as basic questions the following:
▪ Is the working relationship of each separate group of the archaeological community the only aspect that differentiates them or does the working context reflect, after all, upon both the scientific object and scientific behavior of contract archaeologists?
▪ In what ways and through what mechanisms does the lived working experience of a contract archaeologist colors the practice of her science?
▪ What are, ultimately, the potentially detectable consequences of the existing context -that defines scientifically, socially and emotionally Greek contract archaeologist- in the present form of archaeological science?