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Review of iPhones and Archaeology
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 […]
More East vs. West Archaeology Pay
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 […]
Help Build A Resource for Applied Archaeology and Cultural Resource Managment
November 15, 2011
I have been meaning to publish this for a few days now but as always stuff happens. I got a post from Dr. John R. Welch , at SFU, he and several other people are putting together a guide to research materials for applied archaeology and cultural resource management. The website is: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/subject-guides/archaeology/applied-archaeology-and-cultural-resource-management If anyone […]
Crowd Sourcing Archaeology Funds: Tip of the Iceberg or Passing Fad ?
November 13, 2011
Dr. Kristina Killgrove have just completed a crowd sourcing project to raise money for her Roman DNA project. This video explains what the project is about:
What Does it Take to Get that Archaeology Job?- Field Techs
September 19, 2011
Lots of new archaeologists/students/prospective students/archaeologists ask a very similar question – What qualifications do I need to get X job in archaeology. Lots of people offer advice but there is very little hard data out there. To rectify this problem I have gone out and looked at job postings
New Open Access Archaeology Book
August 19, 2011
This was posted on Digging Digitally and I thought I would share it-
The College Payoff- Archaeology Edition (3)
August 18, 2011
The Georgetown university report on degree payoffs, used so far in this review, (seen here http://cew.georgetown.edu/collegepayoff/) listed the median life time earnings (40 hrs a week, 52 weeks a year, 40 years) by degrees is as follows: Associates: 25th percentile- $1,177,100 Median- $1,727,000 75th Percentile- $2,426,300 BA: 25th percentile-$1,490,600 Median-$2,268,000 75th Percentile-3,388,700 MA: 25th percentile- […]
The College Payoff- Archaeology Edition (2)
August 17, 2011
The Georgetown university report on degree payoffs (seen here http://cew.georgetown.edu/collegepayoff/) listed the lowest life time earning (based on 40hrs a week for 40 years) by career for Associates and BA degrees, out of the 300 occupations it covered. They were: Associates degree- Teacher Assistants $9.40 per hr. ($782,000) Cashiers $10.81 per hr. ($899,000) Nursing, Psychiatric, […]
The College Payoff- Archaeology Edition (1)
August 16, 2011
Georgetown university just published a report on lifetime earnings of people by degree level e.g. some highschool, highschool, BA, MA, PhD, and professional degrees. You can see the summary and full report here: http://cew.georgetown.edu/collegepayoff/ They have a even shorter summary of 4 rules: Rule No.1: Degree Level Matters. But Rule No.2: Occupational choice can […]
Reinveting the Archaeology CV/Resume II
August 15, 2011
Jennifer Palmer at archaeologyfieldwork.com made this comment about CVs/Resumes.
Archaeology Journal Publishing XII
August 1, 2011
It has been about two months since my last archaeology journal publishing post, apologies. Quick recap of Arch Journal Publishing I-XI: I looked at varies metrics of “supposed” journal quality vs. price per journal and/or price per page and found pretty much no correlation between these metrics and prices. To continue with this line of […]
Open Access Archaeology Class
July 7, 2011
Via Cultural Property & Archaeology Law: From Boing Boing: Interested in Egyptian archaeology? This summer, you can virtually sit in on a Michigan State University class taught by professor Ethan Watrall. He set the online class up to be completely open access—the public will be able to view and use all course materials. Open access […]
Archaeology Journal Publishing X
June 4, 2011
In my last post I showed that an archaeology journals’ Scientific Journal Ranking (SJR) score does not correlate with the price charged to read them. Using the SJR database, again, I show that there is no correlation between price and the SJR impact factor.
Back Issues of Archaeology Journals
May 9, 2011
Yesterday, I posted a list of archaeology journals that were open access. Well I found two more that have been added to the list here. I have also created a list of journals that post many of their back issues online. There is a few year gap between what is new and the free journals […]
The Little Victories
May 5, 2011
One of my concentrations at the moment has been pay conditions in UK archaeology. I have done a bunch of posts on it (to many to list here). Most of my work has been examining job postings from the IfA jobs information bulletin. For about a decade someone would go through the job bulletins each […]
Good Practice in Archaeology
May 3, 2011
Saw this article on Past Horizons about how Scotland’s Rural Past program was ending (project was only funded for a few year). The best part about the project is that even though the funding is ending they are making a concerted effort to leave a lasting educational presence. The project has produced a series of […]
Best Class I Ever Took and If You Read Only One Book During University
May 1, 2011
Just saw this book review on About.com/Archaeology. It is for the book The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide From Student to a Career. Several years ago, during my undergraduate degree, I took a course Avenues to Professionalism which was the basis for this book. Of the 130+ credit hours I took to get my degree the three […]
Archaeology Consultant Jobs UK with BAJR data
April 29, 2011
The last of my Google maps of UK jobs have been updated with BAJR data, at least for the year 2010. Hope it is of help. As always this map, many other maps, and a description of the methods used to create them can be found here.
Job Map of the UK: Project Managers and Above
April 26, 2011
To add to the several other maps I have created recently, here is a map of Project Managers (and above) for the last three years now updated with BAJR data (2010 only). Thank you David and thanks IfA for the original data as well. See more maps here
Field/Project Officer Pay in the UK
April 23, 2011
Updated the Field/Project Officer pay map with data from BAJR. There is now a fairly complete listing of all the jobs from 2010 that people advertised for. As always this has been added to the regional map.
Illustrator Job Maps Now with BAJR data.
April 21, 2011
Again, thanks to David Connolly I have been able to update my UK jobs maps with BAJR data. I have added the job postings for 2010 to both the individual map and the region map (see below). It was not that many extra but every little bit helps.
Excavator Job Maps: Now with BAJR data
April 19, 2011
Thanks to David Connolly, I now have job posting data from BAJR. I am adding it to the maps I have made so far (see here for summary). It’s a lot of data, so it is slow going, but when I am done it should represent the majority of archaeology job postings in the UK […]
UK Archaeology Jobs Map for 2010
April 18, 2011
After receiving some feedback of the earlier job maps I created (see maps here) I have made some changes . Apologies, to those who saw the first version. I am creating maps in Googlemaps which has a different view than those of the embedded maps. On my editing screen in look clean and straightforward but […]
Agony and Conference Travel
April 17, 2011
This last week I was at the IfA conference in Reading. Getting there involved a 5 hr train ride down, from Edinburgh, and a 9hr train ride back. The nine hours was not planned but it’s what happened after there was a problem on the tracks and the train was slowed down. Not only was […]
Directory of National, Regional, State, and Provincial Archaeological Associations
April 17, 2011
Stumbled across the Directory of National, Regional, State, and Provincial Archaeological Associations today while doing some research. I thought I would share it as it is always hard to find current lists of organizations. It’s mainly for North America but it’s better than nothing. http://www.baywood.com/popup/NA-Directory.pdf
Is a IFA membership worth it?
April 7, 2011
My membership to the Institute For Archaeologists (IFA) was just accepted a few days ago so the IFA is on my mind. If you are not familiar with the IFA it is a professional body in the UK a lot like the Register of Professional Archaeologists in the United States. You pay dues and agree […]
Archaeology Jobs, UK- Specialists
April 6, 2011
So to continue my work from earlier, see here, here, here, here, here, and here, I have made a Google map of the job postings for specialists in archaeology. There is a wide range of specialist jobs from radiocarbon dating to zooarchaeology. I have also made a webpage on how to find information on job […]
Commercial Archaeology Jobs, UK- Project Managers and Senior Positions
April 4, 2011
To continue with the trend of the last few posts here is a Google Map for Project Manager jobs in the UK. I should reiterate that locations are approximations e.g. I place a marker in London for jobs based out of London but do not actually put the exact location.
Excavator Jobs, UK
April 1, 2011
After my disaster with Bing Maps I am moving back to Google Maps. Here is a map of excavator jobs in the UK between 2008-2010.
Archaeology Illustrator Jobs in the UK & Bing maps
March 31, 2011
I have recently been combining some of my data with web-based map services. My first try was with Goolge Maps and this attempt is with Bing Maps. I have to say that Bing Maps has pleasantly surprised me. I am not a huge fan of Microsoft products but this one is pretty good. There are […]
3D Resource for Archaeologists?
March 28, 2011
I read this article on creating 3D models using just a few photos. Actually, depending on size of the object it could be upwards of 40 pictures (for car size objects). I was thinking of applications for this sort of work in archaeology. Right off the bat, I thought of several of the MA osteology […]
How to Learn GIS for Archaeology
March 21, 2011
University of Leicester GIS Training for Archaeologists and is case the link doesn’t work http://www.le.ac.uk/ar/arcgis/Main.html My adviser told me about this site. He also said that it was no longer linked in any meaningful way to the main University of Leicester archaeology website and so he was looking into finding it. Well, I ended up […]
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