Cultural resource management archaeology is awesome!
Cultural resource management archaeology is not always fun but it can be an amazing career. Learn more here.
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My Top 5 Archeology Projects
Learn about the top 5 archaeology projects I’ve worked on in my 20-year-long career
Why Antiracism Training is Necessary for Archaeology
American archaeology has roots in American racism. Attending an antiracism training as an archaeologist is the start towards addressing this reality.
The Archaeological Field School System is Broken, Part II
All archaeology students want to know how their degree is going to translate into a gainful employment. Millennials and Gen-Z are as pragmatic as they are impatient. More than previous generations, I feel like they want to know exactly how each action is going to benefit their own personal goals […]
The 2020 Race Uprisings and Archaeology’s Response 12
Right now, the United States is burning. This is not the first time. It is not the last. In the wake of yet another social maelstrom caused by the Original Sin at the heart of U.S. history, I’ve been getting emails, text messages, and other requests to help archaeologists articulate […]
Six COVID-19 Cultural Resource Management Archaeology Survival Tips
Cultural resource management archaeology did not exist the last time the world suffered a massive pandemic like COVID-19. We don’t know how the industry or its practitioners will react to global shutdown and rapidly-spreading illness, but we know what happened when our ancestors faced similar conditions. The 1918—1919 Influenza Pandemic […]
Mind control in cultural resource management archaeology?
Archaeologists at the Universities of Arizona, California, Berkeley, Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Stanford, Florida, Illinois, or Pennsylvania are controlling your mind when it comes to archaeology. Archaeologists at these institutions are the ones you cite in your cultural resource management reports. Like it or not, they have great […]
#metoo in cultural resource management archaeology 3
I am one of the millions of American men who were shocked to discover that every single woman I know has been a victim of sexual harassment. Not just some of the women I know. All of them. As a father, brother, son, and husband, this realization hit me with […]
Would you still do archaeology if you were rich?
What would you do with your life if money was no issue? If you were ridiculously rich? Would you still come to work? If so, would you keep doing the job you are currently doing? This is a question most of us will never have to answer. Many Americans will […]
The summer without archaeological fieldwork
This summer (2017) is the first time I haven’t had to do archaeological fieldwork since 2004. It’s not that I didn’t have the chance to do archaeology. I’ve been invited to volunteer on several projects but am between jobs so I have to watch my pennies (Y’all know how that […]