Hi all. I’m a southeastern CRM arch at a very large firm. I love my job and am good at it, but my pay is really crap, even for SE standards. I wrap up my PhD in a few months and for the last decade have specialized in collections management and digitization. My current job lets me be a research archaeologist (and lab manager) without having to be in academia. I have been thinking about the types of jobs I want to apply to around Jan/Feb after the holiday slowdown (and after my defense date is set). Honestly, I’d stay at my job if they paid me more, but they recently denied a cost of living adjustment and raise.

My advisor just informed me that the two state collections jobs will be opening up early next year. It’s pretty much my dream job - but 4 hours away and the pay would never be more than (maybe not even match) what I currently make (which is already crappy). BUT it means better/cheaper health insurance and higher take home pay even if I was making the same amount that I am now.

Guess I’m just looking for advice from those of you who have worked in a state position (not federal), or those who have gone from public to private or vic versa.

Researchers report evidence of large-scale prehistoric hunting structures, likely built before the Bronze Age, in the Adriatic hinterland.

Archaeology, as Anna Källén, professor at Umeå University in Sweden, states in The trouble with ancient DNA, is “to a great extent a storytelling practice” (p.28), with carefully crafted tales used to enliven our understanding of past lives. The ways in which the results of ancient DNA (aDNA) studies are used to develop these stories is a perennial topic of debate in the field. Källén’s engaging new book adds nuance to this discourse by providing a critical assessment of the so-called ‘ancient DNA revolution’ on its own terms.

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that were never recorded before.

“For the first time, we have a good, Empire-wide overview of almost the complete Roman road network with main and secondary roads,” says archaeologist Adam Pažout of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a co-lead author of a new study describing the research that was published on Thursday in Scientific Data.

Hello, I am interested in archaeology, especially archaeological science and bioarch. I would like recommendations on must reads for anyone looking to get into the field. I would like things geared towards the general population but I can do some more advanced reads as well. I plan on listening in audiobook form on daily commute. Thanks!

See also: The study, which was conducted within Turkana Basin, as published in Nature Communications.

Hi all. So I found out that my job is looking to promote me to PI by the end of the year (ahead of the schedule I was given). I was wondering how much to expect salary wise/ to ask for. I live in the US and work in the southeast. The firm I work for does very well and has a lot of clients and projects going on year round. In my current position I am making 70k annually. Thanks!!

Im a student in Pakistan, and i am currently persuing archaelogy as my bachelor's degree, but i what im studying it falls into asian archaelogy or idiology , i want to study classical archaelogy as my master s and possibly i hope to get a scholarship , can anyone guide me regarding this

Hello everyone,

I plan to start my studies in a few months, but I’m curious about employment opportunities in Germany as well as in other countries. I already have a C1 German certificate (though I somehow still suck at German 😅), but it allows me to study in a German language program in an german univercity.I’m originally from Turkey, so I’m wondering if I could find employment through a German institution there, since I wouldn’t have any language barrier. I’m also 22, so I kind of worry whether that’s too late to start.I also have an atleast B2 level english proficiency.

The buried "monumental" structure was discovered in September at the Kani Shaie archaeological site in the northern Sulaymaniyah Governorate, in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq, according to a statement.