About The Archaeology Site
A free, searchable list of archaeology and cultural resources jobs in the United States.
Archaeology jobs are scattered across federal hiring sites, the career pages of dozens of consulting firms, and professional job boards. The Archaeology Site gathers the openings in one place so you can filter by state, job type, and pay, and so you can spot field, lab, and project-management work without checking each employer one at a time.
Who runs this site
I'm Tim, an archaeologist who meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards and has worked in cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology for over a decade. I know firsthand how hard it is to land jobs in this competitive field, and I'm building the site I wish I'd had when I was first starting out as a field tech.
Where the jobs come from
- Federal jobs come from USAJOBS, the U.S. government's official job site. We keep archaeology positions, including those in the federal Archeology series (GS-0193), and leave out unrelated postings.
- Cultural resource management (CRM) firms are read from the public job feeds on their own career sites. This is how openings from firms such as SWCA, Kleinfelder, ESA and Langan reach the list.
- CRM job boards. A job board for cultural resource management firms publishes its members' openings in a public feed. Each job from that feed says it was posted on a CRM job board.
- Hand-added listings. Occasionally we add a job by hand when an employer's site cannot be read automatically.
The list is refreshed automatically. When an employer takes a posting down or its closing date passes, we mark it closed and stop promoting it.
How listings are handled
We do not copy employers' job descriptions. Each page shows the facts we can pull from the posting (employer, location, pay, job type, duration, dates) and a short summary that this site writes. Every listing links to the employer's own posting, which is the official version. Pay, dates and requirements can change, so always confirm them there before you apply.
The Archaeology Site is not a recruiter and does not take applications. You apply directly with the employer, and we have no part in the hiring decision.
News
The News page lists recent stories about the archaeology profession and about archaeology in the US: industry and jobs news, policy such as Section 106 and NAGPRA, and digs and discoveries. We show only the headline, the publisher's name and a short excerpt supplied by the publisher's own feed, and every headline links to the publisher's story. We do not republish articles.
Support for the site
The site is free to use. It is supported by advertising, which we keep clearly separate from the listings; an ad never affects which jobs are shown or how they are ordered. Details on how ads and data are handled are in the privacy policy.
For employers and site owners
Our automated reader identifies itself as TheArchaeologySiteBot, waits between requests, and obeys each site's robots.txt. If you would like a listing corrected or removed, want your openings included, or want the reader to stay off your site, write to hello@thearchaeologysite.com. See the contact page for what to include.