Jordanian Attitudes to Archaeological Heritage part 1

One of the main reasons I'm here in Jordan is to work with staff at the Jordan Museum on a project, probably called what's in the title of this blog. I say probably, because one issue is of language. In English, the technical meaning of heritage is the use of the past in the present. On the street, heritage probably has a slightly different meaning, often I think perhaps, stuff from the past (objects, behaviour) that we still use or do, so that in everyday talk very old objects are not heritage. But we do still have the wider meaning in English of our national heritage meaning everything (or not, if you prefer to ignore the bad stuff people did and think that heritage is only good things).
But in Jordan there is a legal definition. Heritage is the word for everything made after 1750AD. Before that, everything is called archaeology/antiquities (the word in Arabic is athar). So archaeological heritage is in a way a contradiction in terms.
This is the kind of stuff we have been talking about at the museum over the last couple of days I've been in, and we are grappling with other nuances like the right word to use for custodian (many of the Arabic options have religious overtones, whereas the standard translation, hares, is usually used for the guy in the carpark who looks after your car, which is not the concept we want to use).
And we're talking about the form of questions, and the general themes we'll be investigating. So far, I think my favourite question will be:
What are archaeologists doing when they are walking across fields?
a) looking for treasure
b) looking for any kind of archaeology
c) measuring the land
d) looking for archaeological sites
e) wasting time
f) other .......................................................................

Here is most of the team (unfortunately Nihad's face is mainly blocked, but you know how hard it is to get a group of people with everyone's face showing and no-one's eyes closed - if the picture is too small, click on it and it opens bigger - unless you've blocked pop-ups). Najd is the main person I'm working with.