My wife isn’t an archaeologist but she is a hiring manager. She uses the same processes to hire new employees as nearly every archaeology company (except her job doesn’t use the hidden job market as liberally as the cultural resource management archaeology industry does). Her department has some entry-level positions […]
The River Street Archaeology Project ended earlier this month. It was a bittersweet moment for me because: I was working in my home town I worked with friends, acquaintances, and family that I love dearly There were excellent volunteers I got to actually direct a field school, and The project […]
I once heard a story about paper and archaeology that I will never forget. A close friend told me that she once worked at an emergency data recovery project in Arizona where a prehistoric village had just been inadvertently discovered. The excavations included the meticulous removal of a significant number […]
I’ve heard most of the arguments against going paperless in cultural resource management archaeology and I can tell you the risks far outweigh the benefits: Doesn’t it take more time to record sites using tablets? What if the technology fails? What if we break our tablet/laptop in the field? It’s […]
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 […]
A few months ago, I penned a (un)popular blog post titled “When archaeology field techs have to teach PhDs how to do archaeology”. Some people thought it was great. Many did not. Fortunately, I haven’t been kicked out of graduate school over it. The basic premise was: Universities are not […]
Archaeological Monitoring (v.) (1) watching and waiting for a mechanical excavator to reveal an archaeological deposit; (2) a great way for archaeologists to find sites and Native people to reclaim their heritage before development destroys all traces; (3) something construction companies and developers (should) know about but always seem to […]
This is the second of a two part series focused on structural racism and archaeology. I encourage you to click here to read the first part. Again, I have to warn you this blog post is probably going to make you very emotional. The principal emotion you are likely to […]
WARNING: This blog post is probably going to make you very emotional. The principal emotion you are likely to experience is anger. Before you start rampaging in the comments box, please, read the entire article. Then, take three deep breaths and think about where this anger is coming from. Then, […]
As soon as I stepped off the plane in Seattle, I knew the Seahawks had either won the Super Bowl or taken over the world. For many reasons, the prevalence of Seahawks’ gear and 12th Man kudos makes me feel good. Perhaps, it’s because, as a general Seattle sports team […]
