Leonard Woolley, excavator of Ur and knighted by the Queen of England, peers into the future and comments on the effects of the Cultural Resourcement Management movement.

From a 1998 SAA paper on the visibility of crackpots of archaeology, Robert L. Bettinger makes a pithy comment on why we continued to deal with them

A definition of Industrial Archaeology

Shopping Archaeology

Robert L. Bettinger, on the cost of doing business

Commercial archaeology focuses on the material culture aspects of commerce and transportation.

Learning how to excavate is a tricky business and harder than it looks. The subtleties of ancient dirt discolorations are often lost on the novice; and learning how to properly use a shovel, believe it or not, is a treat. Here are some stories about

Ric Windmiller offers advice to the field technician about how to get and keep a decent job, and at the same time proffers a description of what his life as a manager of a cultural resource firm is all about.

A list of cultural resource firms conducting business outside the continental United States.