Full Disclosure: I now teach at a R1, state university. It is in my best interest for university enrollments to continue growing. Therefore, its controversial for me to second guess the university system because its literally taking food from my kids’ mouth. The following blog post is heresy. However, this […]
How many times have you heard this: “The Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) doesn’t mean anything; $100 a year! Why should I join?” The lack of widespread professional certifications, aside from a college degree, is cited as a weakness of doing professional archaeology in the United States. It seems like […]
Yesterday, I participated in recording the latest episode of the CRM Archaeology Podcast—#120: Winter is Coming. Even though it’s a play off the Game of Thrones’ famous line, preparing for winter is a salient issue for any one working in cultural resource management industry. Winter preparations are different for CMRers […]
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 […]
Anybody else hate meetings that don’t result in any action steps? Typically, these meetings are a waste of time because nothing results from them. I’m not the only one: They’re even more soul-sucking than you ever imagined They kill productivity. Three-fourths of employees under 60-years-old hates them. As a cultural […]
Yes. You can get out of cultural resource management. No. You can’t get out of archaeology. Aside from the latest episode of The Great War on YouTube, the highlight of my week has been following two Facebook threads asking, “Why did you get out of CRM archaeology?” Both threads amassed […]
A Bachelor’s is what you need to get a job as an archaeologist. A Masters is what you need to keep working in CRM. A PhD is overkill at the present moment, but probably will not be in the near future. The following post is not intended to dissuade anyone […]
The pain was so great, it took me a few days to digest what happened last week before I could write. The events that went down in Charlottesville have been on many minds. That tends to happen when a massive neo-Nazi and Klu Klux Klan rally disguised as a conservative […]
We’re all familiar with archaeology job posting and their biggest shortcoming. A company is looking for some field techs, so they write up a job posting for archaeologyfieldwork.com or shovelbums.org. They’re looking for a good candidate so they start with what they want from us: A Bachelor’s degree, an “accredited” […]
Boilerplate helps make the cultural resource management archaeology world go around. It is the most efficient way of producing the technical reports we use to keep our clients in compliance with environmental regulations. It’s also a way we can reuse material we’ve already produced in order to keep costs low. […]
