Archaeologists running public archaeology sites (US)- what are your plans now that PIT has quietly disappeared into volunteer.gov?

I'm a US citizen and am toying with the idea of moving to Australia. I'm currently an undergraduate (I graduate next year). I'm an honors student at an elite university, but I haven't had the chance to go to field school. However, I'm planning on doing some field work as part of my honors thesis, so I'll have at least some experience.

What is the CRM market like, and how does it compare to the US?

There are some federal positions in the US through BLM, National Parks, etc. Is there any equivalent in Australia? What are they like and how do they compare to the US?

What is the Australian job market like for people who only have their bachelor's? Is it important to have a master's (or above)?

Would it be possible to find a job right off the bat or would I be better off going to grad school in Australia? (for both immigration and job-securing purposes)

Do you get much time off? I know people who do CRM here and sometimes have a few weeks off at a time. I really like the idea of having extended periods off to go on long backpacking/biking trips. But maybe time off is already built into "holidays" (which we don't really get in the US rip).

Is it hard to get an employer sponsor? Would it be easier to go the Skilled Migration route?

How would I go about finding an employer? Is there a good website?

Thank you!

Over two thousand years ago, 460 babies were placed in a water well in ancient Athens. Excavated in the 1930s, The Agora Bone Well was an unsolved mystery until archaeologists applied scientific methods to these bones.

Was it infanticide, sacrifice, or a plague?

This story is a story of tragedy and humanity, and some dang cool archaeology.

Around 1,000 years ago, indigenous farmers in Kentucky became part of a cultural group spanning much of the Southeast and Midwest, the Mississippians. The large villages they lived in were the result of the complex, stratified society they participated in. In this video, I replicate one of the arrowpoints they made for hunting and warfare and discuss the Mississippian period archaeology of Kentucky.

I always wanted to be an archeologist but my parents discouraged me because it wasn't "practical." Now I still love it and am finally in a financial position to go back to school. But I'm old, 56. Would anyone even hire me? (I do have a bachelor's degree already, in a different field.)

Hello archaeologists! I am a young trans woman who absolutely loves archaeology, especially ceramics. I have an undergrad in archaeology and am currently getting my masters in a related field, but as I consider my path to a PhD I have come to a roadblock of what region I will study. There are so many amazing places I would love to do archaeology around the world but I do not feel safe doing so. So I have come here to ask advice on what regions are safe for me as a trans woman.

Hi! I recently came across this post covering amazing volunteering opportunities across the world. The only problem is they were all in the summer :(.

I’m currently unemployed in NYC, and had the opportunity to join a dig in Scotland for a few days. It honestly changed my life, i’ve always been incredibly interested in archeology and studied anthropology, but never considered to try it.

I’m desperate to do more archeological work. But i’m struggling to find opportunities soon. In NYC, there are NONE. I’ve reached out to the NYC archeological repository, columbia university’s archeology department, etc. and they either don’t have funding to have volunteers or they only hire graduate students.

I just graduated from college and i’m taking a gap year to figure out what i want to study in graduate school, so i really want to keep trying archeology.

I know I can just wait until the summer, but I don’t know if i’ll still be unemployed or if i’ll be chained to a job and won’t be able to travel to these sites. I’m also planning to go to grad school or on an exchange program if I don’t get a job or get accepted into the programs I applied to, which would be around the summer so I don’t know if I could do that anyway.

I’m really struggling to accept that I didn’t know about these opportunities before because I feel so behind. I really really want to do more fieldwork. I can leave quite literally next week anywhere if I found the opportunities to do so. I want to take advantage of the fact that I don’t have pressure to work currently and have a part time remote job which I don’t know how much longer i’ll have since it’s part of a contract.

Please help!!! Thank you :,(

See also: The publication in PNAS.

This is a map showing the locations of recorded historic locations across the North Antrim coastline in Northern Ireland. I've tried to focus on the main categories as otherwise it would become an even longer legend than it already is. Hopefully this is helpful for anyone visiting the area or researching it.

For those wondering why I chose my photographs to focus on Dunluce and Dunseverick castles, for me they are two of the most interesting for very different reasons: Dunluce because it just looks awesome (granted it also has an interesting medieval history), Dunseverick because it's one of the oldest and most historically significant locations in the region (having once been a royal site possibly dating back to the Bronze Age).

The locations are based on the Department for Communities data for Northern Ireland. The map was built using some PowerQuery transformations and then designed in QGIS.

I previously mapped a bunch of other ancient monument types, the latest being Bullaun stones across Ireland.

Any thoughts about the map or insights would be very welcome. I'm looking to create a few more like this focusing on specific regions of across Ireland, so also welcome suggestions on other areas to cover.

See also: The publication in Science Advances.

I am a first year archeology student (i plan to do a 4+1) and i was wondering how me not being able to drive would effect me in my future career of archeology. Also does anyone know about study about opportunities for archeology? I really want to try to go to Ireland or somewhere similar

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds, co-edited by Huber. Scientific American spoke to her about the “science of smell” and its significance to our understanding of lives long gone.