Cultural resource management archaeology is awesome!
Cultural resource management archaeology is not always fun but it can be an amazing career. Learn more here.
Cultural resource management archaeology is not always fun but it can be an amazing career. Learn more here.
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Here are 37 things I’ve learned in nearly 20 years of working as a professional archeologist in the United States.
I feel like archaeology has the potential to make archaeologists better citizens. This is why I blog about archaeology.
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Field techs are the foundation of CRM archaeology. They are eager, excited, and essential but grossly underpaid. A dollar saved is worth more than a dollar earned which is why it’s critical field techs save their perdiem and food allowance. While there are some financially frivolous archaeologists who spend all […]
Cultural resource management archaeology was never even mentioned during my undergraduate career. I finished my Bachelor’s degree in 2001 but didn’t learn about CRM until about a year after I’d already graduated. Things had changed a little bit by the time I finished my Master’s in 2005. A course on […]
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 […]
If you were going to land a job in cultural resource management archaeology, you’re hitting the job search kinda late. December through February is the best time to start your job search but there are still dozens of jobs advertised. Companies need archaeological field technicians, crew chiefs, and project managers. […]
I recently recorded an episode of Chris Sims’ excellent Go Dig a Hole Podcast and a live episode of the CRM Archaeology Podcast at the 35th Great Basin Anthropology Conference (GBAC) in Reno, Nevada. One of the other co-hosts, Sonia Hutmacher, spent a significant portion of both podcasts describing her […]