So more detailed numbers to go with the average salaries posted earlier- Unlike with other positions there is not a great range in the possible pay that an assistant professor in archaeology could obtain. The average is around 60k a year (all numbers are assumed to be full time employment) and the majority of positions… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012
In conjunction with the post on the average pay of a professor of archaeology and the additional statistics on full professors, in the United States, here is a break down of associate professors pay (assumed full time) to give you an idea of range in pay: This is the distribution by individual associate professor… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
To go with the post on the average pay of a professor of archaeology in the United States here is a break down of full professors pay to give you an idea of range in pay: This is the distribution by professor and not by department. Some departments have 10 faculty while others have 1.… [Read more…]
February 20, 2012
How much do archaeology Professors in the United States make? A quick google search will turn up lots of websites with horrible results e.g. $250,000 a year. The Society of American Archaeologists did a salary survey in 2004 that is probably the most accurate but now about 8 years out of date. Using the information… [Read more…]
February 17, 2012
This is the forth post in a series looking at employment statistics of academic archaeologists in the US. This post deals with the non-full time, non-permanent, non-traditional academic archaeologists such instructors, adjunct faculty, lectures, researchers(includes the occasional post-doc), etc. This list also includes the occasional lab manager and skills instructor. From information on the other… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
This post deals with full professors in archaeology and is one of a series of posts dealing with academic jobs for archaeologists. If you want to know more about associate professors see here, assistant professors see here, or methodology used to collect the results see here. There are rouglhy 494 full professors of archaeology (plus… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
Yesterday, I looked at the break down of assistant professor archaeologists in academia. This post looks at those that have obtained tenure but have not quite reached the level of full professor. There are roughly 344 archaeologists in such a position (this is only for US universities and departments that offer archaeology degrees/concentrations/classes there are… [Read more…]
February 14, 2012
Yesterday, I posted the number of archaeologists working in academia in the US and today I will look at the subset of Assistant Professors. There are currently roughly 260 archaeologist who are assistant professors working archaeology-based subject departments in the US (i.e. those that have classes in archaeology and degree concentrations in archaeology). For those… [Read more…]
February 13, 2012
It has taken a few months but I have gone through a the AAA e-guide and then personally through the websites of a little shy of 400 departments (anthroplogy/archaeology/other) (see full list here) to do a head count of the academic archaeologists in the US. Places were these numbers might be week- archaeologists in departments… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should take a look at the Heritage Business Journal. It covers issues relating to the heritage industry and if you are an archaeologists chances are 98% of you will be employed by the heritage industry. http://heritagebusinessjournal.com/ It covers the world with correspondents in the UK, USA, Canada,… [Read more…]
February 9, 2012
I had recently edited my previous posts about the AAA less then great response to open access ( The 30 Pieces of Silver the American Anthropology Association Sold Us Out For, American Anthropology Association FAIL!!!! This Time on an Epic Scale, and Why this #AAAfail is Epic- How the American Anthropology Association is throwing the public under… [Read more…]
February 9, 2012
Archaeological Links just got a new website- http://archaeologicallinks.wordpress.com/ I was looking at it this morning and it has blogs, blogfeeds, Data and resources, Journals, lists of other archaeology link resources, magazines, maps, and the list goes on. It seems to focus heavily on Egypt and that part of the world but it does have a… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
I helping create a guide for new archaeologists to the world of commercial archaeology. It has got me thinking about what I wish I had known before I became an archaeologists. In no particular order here are some of the thinks I wish I had known. Pay- Yes, everyone also said pay was bad but… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
This post is part of a series- The 30 Pieces of Silver the American Anthropology Association Sold Us Out For, American Anthropology Association FAIL!!!! This Time on an Epic Scale, Why this #AAAfail is Epic- How the American Anthropology Association is throwing the public under the bus and killing books for no good reason! and Former Cultural Anthropology… [Read more…]
February 2, 2012
Here is a list of seven great blogs that deal with osteoarchaeology (bones), the human body of the past, and burials. If you want to follow all of these blogs I have created an RSS feed using google bundles- here it is. *The term death touchers in the title comes from once when I and… [Read more…]
February 1, 2012
This post is part of a series- The 30 Pieces of Silver the American Anthropology Association Sold Us Out For, American Anthropology Association FAIL!!!! This Time on an Epic Scale, Why this #AAAfail is Epic- How the American Anthropology Association is throwing the public under the bus and killing books for no good reason! and Former Cultural Anthropology… [Read more…]
January 31, 2012
This post is part of a series- The 30 Pieces of Silver the American Anthropology Association Sold Us Out For, American Anthropology Association FAIL!!!! This Time on an Epic Scale, Why this #AAAfail is Epic- How the American Anthropology Association is throwing the public under the bus and killing books for no good reason! and Former Cultural Anthropology… [Read more…]
January 29, 2012
The article I wrote for the SAA Archaeological Record, Field Technicians-Making a Living, is now online. I have not posted any pre-print copies online as the SAA Archaeological Record is Open Access. You can see the full issue, which has a great section on field school, here- http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/Publications/thesaaarchrec/Jan2012.pdf If you have been following this blog… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
I would like to give a shout out to Chris Dore’s new blog Heritage Business Journal - “Within the heritage consulting industry, obtaining data upon which to make sound business decisions is difficult. There is more information available, though, than most management teams are aware. However, data quality is variable, data are not always quantitative,… [Read more…]
January 24, 2012
Here is a list of archaeology blogs that put out informative posts, similar to news articles, on different archaeology subjects. Not quite news blogs but they still put out some great information just not as frequent. (this is not to say that other blogs are not informative- just these concentrate on article like posts) If… [Read more…]
January 23, 2012
Some archaeology blogs focus on a certain country or region. Here is a list of them if you interested in the archaeology of a certain location. If you want to subscribe to an RSS feed of all of these blogs you can do so here- http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F01932906651094703905%2Fbundle%2FRegional%20and%20Local%20Archaeology%20Blogs A full list of other archaeology blogs can be… [Read more…]
January 22, 2012
As pointed out by several people my list of 17 great archaeology blogs on the antiquities trade and looting was a bit one-sided. Well after looking around I have not found any pro-collecting blogs (I guess blogging is not something they do) but there are several forums and websites you could check out to get… [Read more…]
January 20, 2012
Do you like modern technology? Do you like Archaeology? It you answer yes to both then I have a list of 20 kick-a$$ blogs that you should follow. To make it easier to follow them here is a RSS feed of all the blogs so you can recieve updates (google bundle)- http://www.google.co.uk/reader/bundle/user%2F01932906651094703905%2Fbundle%2FDigital%20Archaeology%20and%20Tech. For more awsome… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Here are some great blogs that discuss working in commercial archaeology/CRM. This topic can be tricky and some of these blogs do not actually cover just Commercial/CRM archaeology but they do give good insights into the life/conditions. This list of blogs and others can be found at my archaeology blog list. If you want to… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
Here is a list of 17 great blogs that you can follow on the antiquities trade and looting. They are the first category on my list of great archaeology-related blogs (more categories coming soon). This list is not meant to pigeonhole these blogs into a single category as they sometimes discuss other issues but they… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
This is the first post of what will be a series of posts sharing great archaeology blogs I follow and that in my opinion you should follow too. I have been thinking about doing this for awhile but it wasn’t till I saw a shout out by Things You Can’t Take Back for another blog… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
To go with the post on pay for senior archaeologists in the US this post looks at what is takes to get such a job. Using the requirements listed in the job postings, same as the ones used to determine pay conditions, this post presents the results- What the graph shows is that there is… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
So a month ago I submitted a paper to the CAA conference and just recently I got back two reviews- Reviewer A: The topic of the paper seems directly relevant to the session and may offer a genuine contribution. However, the abstract is far too short even by the forgiving standards of CAA. The paper… [Read more…]
January 15, 2012
Jstor is now opening up a very tiny portion (%5) of their journals for people to be able to preview at least three full articles (can’t download or print said articles). The most striking thing about this announcement is that they say that each year they block 150,000,000 attempts to see an article. No misprint,… [Read more…]
January 14, 2012
After going over pay for techs., crew chiefs, and project managers this post will examine pay for senior archaeologists e.g. top of the work hierarchy such as those in charge of an officer/region or owner of a company. See previous posts for methodology. The results were, in $ per hr- As can be seen in… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
This post is a continuation of a series of posts exploring the pay conditions of different archaeology jobs and the qualifications need to obtain those said jobs. The data is collected from job postings- See here for more details on methodology. The earlier posts looked atfield tech positions and crew chiefs in CRM (North America).… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
Charles Mount has a very interesting post on the current health of CRM in Ireland. I recommend you check it out- http://charles-mount.ie/wp/?p=700
January 11, 2012
This post looks at pay for project managers/project directors/junior archaeologists/project supervisor (there are about a dozen different names for this position but it is really middle management e.g. someone who is in charge of excavations or the lab on projects but is not the very top person like the company owner or senior management). As… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
After discussing what pay is like for crew chiefs/senior techs it would be good to mention what it takes to get such a job. For this I used the the requirements listed in job postings same as I used for pay rates. As with field techs there is over lap so some categories do not… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
In this post I take a look at the pay for the position of crew chief/senior technician. The methodology is the same as before. This position is a weird one in that not every company has this type of position and it also tends to be a position seen in some areas of the country… [Read more…]
January 8, 2012
While I was examining job postings to get an idea of how much archaeology field technicians made in in 2011 I also collected additional data on what requirements were listed to obtain a archaeology technician job (US only other countries to follow in a few months). The same methodology was used to collect posts. There… [Read more…]
January 7, 2012
The numbers are in for my annual examination of archaeology job postings in the US (UK runs on a fiscal year and will be ready in April). My data comes from the job postings on the websites Shovelbums.com yahoo group and Archaeologyfieldwork.com (added for the 2011 numbers), duplicate posts between the two were and multiple… [Read more…]
January 7, 2012
There is a great book called Motel of Mysteries in which, in “the future”, archaeologists discover a “motel” and then make all sorts of interpretations. It gets pretty funny with some of the interpretations of what stuff was used for. If I remember correctly at one point they say a toilet seat is a hat.… [Read more…]
January 6, 2012
After a lot more work than I thought it was going to be, I created a searchable table of Open Access Archaeology Publications using google charts and google fusion tables. You can now now view the finished product at Open Access Archaeology. It will be replacing my current list of open access journals. I will… [Read more…]
January 5, 2012
So with the dawn of 2012 lots of archaeologists have been making posts on blogs about how the whole 2012 idea is complete crap. This pretty much has to do with the fact that every time some one brings up the end of the world in 2012 they use some form of the phrase “…… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
An article of mine was recently published in The Archaeologists, which is open access but with a 1 year rolling wall were you have to be a member of the IfA to see it. The reason I published there was because it was open access but one year is a long time to wait for… [Read more…]
January 2, 2012
This post is by request of the Anonymous Swiss Collector. A few weeks back I wrote about the average time between obtaining a PhD and a academic archaeology job in the UK, 4.32 yrs. The question was asked if these numbers could applied to individual universities to see if there was a difference between universities.… [Read more…]
December 26, 2011
This review came from Peter Eidenbach via the NMAC listserve. I haven’t found it anywhere else so I figure I would share his thoughts here- iPhone on Archaeological Field Survey Several months ago, my daughter the lawyer signed the family up for a new cell phone plan and got me an iPhone. I hadn't imagined… [Read more…]
December 20, 2011
This is the most holiday related archaeology artifact that I could find. Hope you enjoy.
December 19, 2011
Last week I looked at why archaeologists in the Western half of the USA make more money then those on the Eastern half. I looked at some factors like size of states, population, number archaeology/anthropology programs available locally, etc. which had very low correlations with the pay patterns. What appears to explain what is seen… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I have been very, very busy with lots of projects, one of which is the launch of- Archaeologycourses.org Myself and Paolo Ciuchini, of ArchaeoJobs fame, have put together a searchable map-list of over 700+ archaeology programs around the world (see full list below). If you need to find… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
Yesterday, I wrote about how archaeologists in the Western United States make better pay then those in the Eastern United States. I also looked at land size, number of archaeology programs available, and population of states to see if there was any correlation between these factors and pay; there wasn’t. Moving on to the next… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
It has been pretty well documented that pay is better for archaeologists in the Western United States vs. the Eastern United States (see here for another publication on it, p.36). Lots of people have made guesses as to why that is but no one has actually investigated it. I figured I would test out some… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
This came from the Assemblage journal RSS feed- “…we’re bringing you a smorgasbord of features to tide you over for the festive season. We have a double State of the Arch update with two pieces on a similar theme. Patrcik Hadley discusses the issues surrouonding setting up Mesolithic Miscellany and the world of open access journals,… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
As part of a project between myself and Paolo at http://www.archaeojobs.com/ to create a list of universities that have archaeology programs I created a list of all USA schools that have an archaeology degree/anthropology degree with an emphasis on archaeology. Now I am sure this is not 100% but it is probably close to 98-99%… [Read more…]
December 7, 2011
A few months ago I published a post “What Does it Take to Get that Archaeology Job?- Field Techs” in which I looked at what requirements are listed on job postings (US only) on the website shovelbums. This investigation was only for the year 2010. I decided to go back and look at trends over a… [Read more…]
December 4, 2011
The other day I wrote about how quite a few people advised students not to go to grad school. One of the pieces I brought up, by Larry Cebula, has been (not sure on the write word- critiqued?) by Holger Syme . It is a decent critique that presents a fairly good argument for going… [Read more…]
December 3, 2011
Just saw this advertisement on a website I was on. I figured at some point someone would try to cash in on the whole Mayan end of the world crap. I was told a couple of years back (circa 2006-7) that all of the hotels in the Yucatan were already booked up for the “end… [Read more…]
November 30, 2011
The other day I mused about how certain universities dominate where academics get their degrees from and how this might influence the spread of ideas. Taking this a bit further I looked at the distribution of academics, in the UK, by decade to see if there were trends over time. Again, using the distribution of… [Read more…]
November 29, 2011
A couple of blogs have been posting, and linking to each other, about getting an academic job- Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor, You Aren’t the Exception, and Why Do Grad Students Think They Can Beat the Odds? The basic gist of all of these articles are that most students will… [Read more…]
November 28, 2011
In my last few posts I have looked at how long it takes between a PhD and an Academic Job both overall and by decade. As part of that same dataset I also collected information on where academic archaeologists got their degrees from. This happened to be a lot easier to obtain then details on… [Read more…]
November 27, 2011
Very good video- Ben Kacyra brings up some great points about preservation and the loss of heritage sites. I have to say, the bundling of the data into apps and programs so people can access it is great. Too often the actual data is not decimated to the public so they can use it. It… [Read more…]
November 26, 2011
November 25, 2011
A few days ago I wrote about the average time it took academics in the UK between receiving their PhD and getting an permanent academic job, 4.32 yrs, but that was an over all average and not broken down by any other factors. I have since looked at these numbers by the decade in which… [Read more…]
November 23, 2011
How Long Between when one gets a PhD and when one obtains an academic job in archaeology? Lots of people ask that question so I set out to find the answer, at least for UK based archaeologists. As part of looking at the number of staff positions post I also noted down years staff obtained… [Read more…]
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