cultural resources jobs


How fieldwork decides who gets to be a CRM archaeologist and who doesn’t 1

During my time in cultural resource management archaeology, I have noticed how field experience, or lack thereof, creates a separation between those archaeologists who go out in the field (A.K.A “dirt archaeologists”) and those who spend most of their time in the office. Most of the office archaeologists used to […]


The Future of Cultural Resource Management Archaeology, Part II

(This is the second in a 3-part series on a workshop focused on the future of cultural resource management archaeology that was given as part of the University of Arizona’s School of Anthropology Centennial celebration. You can check out Part I here.) “The Golden Age of cultural resource management archaeology […]


You can use Google Earth and Trulia to identify historic properties in your project area

How to identify historic properties using Google Earth 1

Don’t you just love it when you get a PDF of a project area floating in the middle of some unidentified terrain? Just a polygon overlain upon some barren desert, forest quadrat, or urban freeway with very little context? And, you’re, somehow, expected to plan your cultural resource management archaeology […]