Monthly Archives: April 2015


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 […]

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

You only have to get up one more time than you get kicked down in order to succeed

The shocking truth about a career in cultural resource management archaeology 4

“It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi It’s no secret most cultural resource management archaeologists give up. CRM is a hard field in which to build a career. Recently, I came across this post written in 2000 on the United Archaeological Field Technicians […]


How to identify open career niches in the cultural resource management industry

Cultural resource management companies don’t need archaeologists. They don’t. Think about it. Is archaeology the ONLY thing CRM archaeologists do for their companies? Do companies need employees that ONLY do archaeology? The answer is no. CRM archaeologists do a wide variety of different activities and tasks for their employers. They […]

Fill existing needs within cultural resource management companies in order to get hired

What is the number one truth about cultural resource management archaeology reports?

The Number One Truth about Cultural Resource Management Reports

I have been lead author or primary contributor to over 60 cultural resource management archaeology reports. That’s not including reports where I wrote a historic background, artifact analysis, or boilerplate contribution. All of that writing represents dozens of man-hours and thousands of dollars’ worth of research. Those reports represent the […]