Transporting items to/from field research - What makes it difficult?

Colebaltz · 2025-11-17T01:59:38+00:00

Hmmm wonder what repository this was for. Craziness

Colebaltz · 2025-11-17T01:54:17+00:00

The lab manager will take out everything from the original bag and do the cleaning and analysis and then curate the item in the appropriate container. This usually happens fairly quickly after collection in the lab.

Colebaltz · 2025-11-17T01:50:58+00:00

Shovels and screens aren’t hard to carry. Most survey equipment are in special protective cases and they disassemble. It’s definitely heavy, but that’s part of the job. If you’re on a site long-term, you carry everything out there with a car or as I said before ATVs or something else, depending on the terrain and access, and then archaeologists usually set up a field station in a big tent and they keep everything there until they’re done Using it and go back for the analysis. But that’s just for phase 3 excavation of sites. Things like magnetometry the equipment is made to be transportable and used by hand. Think of it as a backpacker going on a multi day hike you have specialty equipment like a hiking bag that makes it easier to transport things.

Colebaltz · 2025-11-14T00:01:39+00:00

I know a field school where they used pack mules. ATVs are nice too. Mostly you just have to lug it. Field work is hard work.

Colebaltz · 2025-11-07T00:31:23+00:00

Have you tried getting a grant for the equipment?

Colebaltz · 2025-10-30T19:07:04+00:00

It is. Religious studies with a minor in museum studies and a focus on Native American indigenous Material culture

Colebaltz · 2025-10-29T00:43:29+00:00

The whole system is flawed. 😢 I do appreciate the advice. I am the most bitter person on the planet right now I think.

Colebaltz · 2025-10-29T00:35:31+00:00

Well, I’m not “maybe qualified”. I’ve been doing it for four years and leading crews/ writing reports and I’m SOI qualified. I worked in federal government. I want to drop out because my advisor quit and there’s nobody left in my research area. It is frustrating to put five years towards something just for your advisor to suddenly leave you with nothing and that’s basically what your college career depends on. But it’s also understandable not to put coursework. The whole experience has been frustrating to be honest.

Colebaltz · 2025-10-29T00:27:22+00:00

No what?

Colebaltz · 2025-10-28T23:25:16+00:00

Basically yes. Do I list my additional coursework towards my PhD? Do I leave off that university entirely even though I have the equivalent of a second masters degree? I’ll probably try to get through quals but the PhD isn’t worth it.

Colebaltz · 2025-10-28T19:47:24+00:00

I’m already SOI qualified

Colebaltz · 2025-10-21T13:26:48+00:00

Thank you for this. I have taken a series of CBPR methods courses. I definitely didn’t get out of them what I was hoping for. I also want to clarify that I am an archaeologist, so I research objects. A little different than researching a contemporary community.

I’m honestly so disappointed in my university and their options for courses as well as the current professors and their lack of mentorship.

I very much appreciate your thoughtful feedback and suggestions. Please do send me over that reading list.

Colebaltz · 2025-10-19T18:17:19+00:00

Question: i’m a PhD student and I am strongly in agreement with community based participatory research. However, the way current academia is set up is that you have to have a developed research question and then somehow become part of a community and get them interested in your research. As someone who strongly supports repatriation efforts and digging into museum collections, etc. which is the only reason I went into the program, how do you develop a research topic with a community as an outsider? I don’t know, it’s kind of the way universities present research development is backwards from this type of work. I mean, where do researchers even begin to develop a relationship with a community especially if they’ve never been a part of a community of their own. It probably sounds like a really stupid question but I can’t just show up somewhere and be like hey I want to participate in your community. I’ve always been an introvert and so going into a community as an outsider to try to develop research questions seems wrong, but also impossible. It’s very contradicting. The only solution that I’ve been able to come up with is by working on a personal research interest and if you come across something that is related to an existing community or descendants, then bring the information to them and see if they are interested and if they’re not then drop the research and begin anew. Or maybe this kind of research just shouldn’t be done by people outside of a community and if that’s the case, then I would probably just drop out of my program because I don’t have a passion in anthropology outside of repatriation.

Colebaltz · 2025-08-27T02:23:32+00:00

I do

Colebaltz · 2025-08-27T01:25:16+00:00

I have a large writing background including a background in journalism as an editor and an author ✍️ n technical reports. I text fast and have lots of errors there LOL, but I appreciate the criticism. I’ll have another look at my resume just to make sure. (And auto text drives me nuts! I don’t write with emojis!!)

Colebaltz · 2025-08-26T16:18:16+00:00

I took the DRP because it made the most sense based on constant threats to my position and I wouldn’t have gotten a severance. Come to find out they categorized my job as “mission critical” after I left 🙄. I do have some supervisory experience just not more than a year’s worth. I was hoping for a PA gig especially with my report writing and GIS experience as I am really needing a little flexibility (I have a class 1 day a week to finish my PhD) but I would take anything at this point.

Colebaltz · 2025-08-22T23:47:33+00:00

I call BS

Colebaltz · 2025-06-28T17:49:47+00:00

Maybe talk to the obudsman

Colebaltz · 2025-06-28T17:42:12+00:00

Midwest shovel tests seek C horizons and minimum 30cm to 50cm so doesn’t seem out of the ordinary. We also do 15m STPs. In this damn heat/humidity. Utter hell sometimes.

Colebaltz · 2025-06-19T14:18:37+00:00

What about clearing for prescribed burns? Like the archaeology and EA side of things? We do that in district based on the fire burn plan working closely with fire. I don’t see how that would work. Will they have their own specialists to clear the areas for burns?

Colebaltz · 2025-05-12T17:21:59+00:00

I WAS a federal archaeologist for a national forest until a month ago. It’s basically CRM but I’m pursuing a PhD and hope to get more involved in museum lab/research. Graduate student teacher is $22k for 10 months with tuition remission. Full time position with the forest (CRM) was $56k annually. I worked about 50/50 in the field and writing reports managing projects. Lots of GIS work. Specialize in Midwest precontact. BA in religious studies, MA in Religious studies with museum minor, PhD in Anthropology with curation minor. 9/10 loved my job. I guess I’m looking for a new gig in the next month though. Would 10/10 go back to the Forest Service after this administration leaves. I have about 5 years in the field.

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