History Forum / General / Archaeology / June 2007

I'll go.

I have two years training in archaeology at the graduate level,
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For personal reasons, I
did not finish the degree, and have not practiced since. I have
had a couple minor dig experiences, and a bit more experience of
field surveys.

This was mostly more than 20 years ago, so my books are mostly
old, and I have to work to catch up on newer theories and
investigations.

I've got a PhD in archaeology and have been working as such for more than 20
years. Most of what I do is excavating, usually from the medieval, but you
never know what's there till you start digging. I have done everything from
the early neolithic to the 20th c. I worked for nearly 10 years in Luebeck,
did a spell for the german top research foundation DFG, and right now I'm
working in Brandenburg and Berlin.

have fun

Uwe Mueller

I  have a PhD in anthropology, with a minor in archaeology. I currently
teach anthropology (4-field) at Seton Hall University  (NJ). I am also the
Director of the University Museum. Our collections are mostly NJ and region
archaeological materials.

tk

working on my MA in anthropology (archaeology).  i've 6 years experience,
have presented at local and regional conferences, and had papers presented
at two annual meetings of the society for american archaeology.  my current
research is on the biosocial analysis of Hunter-Gatherer societies, and how
the use of resources in an arid environment are conditioned by social
organization, group size, and mobility, and how they change over time.

...

    No arkie creds whatsoever, a fact many never doubted. I am a physicist,
engineer and manager with a general interest in all sciences. My long standing
interest is in what humans were doing or 50-80 thousand years instead of
building cities.

I did't stick my hand up earlier, but Tom did it, and now
you suggested in the thread with the same name that you
are interested, so why not?
I do not qualify as an archaeologist, but archaeology is
important in Historical Geography and later I took much
more interest in it. In a riverdelta like the Netherlands
landscape and man are closely connected, and especially
from the middleages onwards man had a major impact on
the geography.
Archaeological remains are used in the reconstruction of
past landscapes and (physical) geography is used to
'predict' archaeological remains. And my knowledge as a
landscape ecologist is often very useful.
So, I never was a professional archaeologist, but for a
while the protection of known and unknown cultural
remains in a certain area was part of my job. That needs
at least knowledge of what is known, and I added to the
knowledge of visible remains. As a volunteer I participate(d?)
in excavations and surveys.
I also held talks and I published about results.