In case you didn’t already know, there’s a new archaeology podcast online. It started in late 2012 and, after some remodels and improvements, the CRM Archaeology Podcast has stormed into the Year of the Snake. And just like the Chinese zodiac Snake sign tells us, the podcast is keen, cunning, […]
I recently overheard a couple of co-workers arguing about who was going to help the new CRM archaeology principal investigator (PI) with a problem that I encountered earlier in my tenure at this company. The PI didn’t know how he was supposed to formally request information from the lab, which […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post that asked if developers hated historic presentation. I don’t believe they do, but there are many signs that historic preservation isn’t important to many construction companies and developers. This topic was also picked up in a recent episode of the CRM […]
In case you didn’t already know, I’ve been helping a friend find a job in archaeology. Writing a résumé was covered in Part 1. Targeted online networking was covered in Part 2 of the series. Here’s what happened in the first 6 weeks of the search: Since I hadn’t talked […]
In 2012, I was given a 100% hours reduction/ furlough– my company’s chicken sh*t way of laying me off. I had a wife, a young son, and am guardian to my teenage sister. There wasn’t too much archaeology work going down in my part of the country either. With bills […]
“Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” Franklin P. Jones How do you know when you’ve hit the “floor” of an Archaic Native American pithouse? How do you keep from digging right through the floor and losing the original context of any artifacts imbedded in […]
Here’s a excerpt from my upcoming book on Small Archaeology Project Management. Technical report writing for cultural resource management, historic preservation, and heritage conservation is rarely taught in school. Oftentimes, we are left to fend for ourselves and have to write technical reports without any supervision or suggestions. Here are […]
“Things don’t just work out right. We have to make things work out right.” Nido Qubien I got my first job in archaeology in 2004. I was a crew chief working for the Idaho Transportation Department on a project in Lewis County, near Lenore, Idaho. Because I was a grad […]
(This is the first part of a case study about how I helped a co-worker land a new job in archaeology. The names and people involved in this case study will remain anonymous until the end.) Recently, I received the email highlighted in the photo below:
On November 21, 1968, an enormous explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 78 miners. Only 21 of the 99 men working that shift at the Farmington No. 9 mine escaped with their lives. The others could not be rescued immediately because of fires that raged following the […]
