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Has anyone built a protective enclosure over a site in a CRM or academic context?

We've been asked to build one to protect it against snow and rain in the winter (southern Canada). Excavations will resume in April, but water run-off during two episodes has caused considerable erosion damage over the summer, and we want to prevent this from happening again.We have a design but the client is asking for precedent.

Thanks!

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Hi everyone,

I am currently working as a Heritage Advisor/Archaeologist in Melbourne, and have been for over 2 yrs now.

I am finding for the past year, I feel that consulting is not for me. My passion is definitely fine arts/music and more creative outputs. I have a great passion for Aboriginal and historic archaeology too but don’t believe it’s being fulfilled in consulting (which could be fuelling this lack of interest in my role). I’ve identified that I am definitely more interested in forensic archaeology and section/site/lithic drawings and mapping.

Does anyone have any advice for this situation, and if any more creative fields within (or outside) archaeology would be possible with my degrees? A change of field and/or going back to uni is not out of the question. I currently hold a BA and BA Hons, both in Archaeology, from UWA.

Thanks in advance for any advice/comments.

Hello, I have a project on the migration of the Gaelic culture into Scotland and I can’t seem to find any maps for archaeological sites in Scotland and I was hoping there would be people who could reach out and share their data.

Disclaimer: if you provide a link I will give full citations and credit to you and your work.

Hello! I am trying to use ArcPro to create a polygon with no coordinate system. I want to create a map using the site grid from total station points rather than real world points for now. The ArcPro help page states this cannot be done BUT I was hoping someone here has a work around or way to achieve this. This is a feature that used to be done on ArcMap but the software has been updated to ArcPro for us.

I'm a curious little fella wondering what y'all think of this

So I'm currently a 3rd year student at a state school majoring in Computer Science. It can be challenging, but I'm getting through it. I am currently in my systems programming class, and I still have an A (somehow) so I think it's a safe assumption that I will be finishing out the degree. But recently, over the past year, I've developed a strong interest in New Testament studies. I've gotten in contact with the staff over in the classics department at my school about their archaeology degree, which mainly focuses on Rome and Greece (though my interest is primarily in Greece because of the biblical aspect of it), and I would be able to get the degree done in an extra year, so total of 5.

So I am wondering: Is it worth pursuing? I would be doing it purely out of interest. I hope to be able to do some field work with it, but my ultimate goal would be to remain within the realm of CS. But I think it would be nice to venture out and do something different. I also don't want to get burnt out from CS in the future so this could be a good way to not have everything be CS. So opinions? Thanks

i'm looking for volunteer excavation experiences that aren't field schools as i've already attended. i know these exist but i have no idea how to find them!

Hey y’all, CRM work is fairly easy to find but I am afraid I do not want to stay in CRM. I find the lack of site context given to technicians a bit sad, I wanna get more into the academic side of archaeology….if you made that transition, can I ask how? CRM is great for now while I’m still in school, it’s let me pay my tuition without going into debt which is insanely lucky, I’m very fortunate…I just don’t wanna stay in CRM when I’m done with my education. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the work and my coworkers are awesome and fun to hang with! The perks of CRM is definitely the people but it’s just not my passion…digging holes and finding stuff is cool but I want the context, I wanna be a part of the research process! I’ve done some research assistant stuff and that was fun, I wanna get back into stuff like that.

Egyptomania was...kind of fucked, right? Mummy unwrapping parties were super disrespectful to the dead, no? Isn't removing corpses from tombs also rude to the dead corpse and civilization? Does it matter?

Hello! In the subreddit's rules may be an off topic question (sorry) but I have been trying to research curse tablets (katadesmos) but I haven't been able to find many sources outside of what Wikipedia has sourced. I haven't bought many books yet because their topics seem to be on a more broad subject of cursed in greco-roman worlds not specifically curse tablets.

Online their is either nothing else or no websites that I feel I can trust, is there anywhere specific I could try looking? I know this is weirdly specific ask but it's been a while and still nothing I could find has been enough information.

Thank you if someone seeing this have any ideas!

Hey, I was interested in this workshop and I wanted to know if anyone has heard of it or is going? I’m a student in the US and I’m interested in going but I don’t want to waste my time/money if it’s not.

https://www.iwagpr2025.gr

Hi, American here. I got my MA and field school in Ireland, then returned to the US and got an internship with the Bureau of Land Management. After my internship, I got a field tech position in the southwest for a year. Now, I'm looking overseas to see if there are other opportunities.

I've noticed a lot of talk in the other threads about CRM opportunities in Germany, France, and other places. I understand that the majority of archaeology happens through CRM. What I don't normally hear about is research positions (like lab work) or government positions (federal archaeologists). I assume both are difficult to get into because of credentials.

At this point, I'll consider whatever. It doesn't have to be those other two positions, CRM is fine for me as well. I just want to know how to put myself out there and what steps to take. Who to talk to, what to expect, where are the most opportunities, etc.

If I want to have a region of focus, it would be Spain as I am fluent in Spanish. However, I am willing to go wherever, as I've heard English is at least accepted in all places. Any help is appreciated.

I recently learned that part of the law might make an exception for the Smithsonian Museums and I thought that was odd. Can anyone explain why their not required to return Native American remains?

Hello! So this is a bit of an interesting question. I recently graduated college in May and started working for a tiny museum in a small town. It pays enough to cover my bills, but I'm not fond of the work environment. My boss is pretty toxic and I'm honestly looking to leave. I got an offer to work as an ARCH Technician for a CRM company but they can't guarantee that another job will follow afterwards. In y'alls experience, how quickly after a project were you able to get on another one? I really want to get some CRM experience but am scared to make the jump if I can't sustain myself. Thanks in advance?

It’s been said that the Spanish burned all but 4 maya books in their conquest of the new world. I was wondering how that can be true with so much still undiscovered? Kind of like the Dead Sea scrolls or something but for the Maya. Anyways just a thought. Thanks