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A Training Program for Salvage Archaeology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James J. Hester
James J. Hester*
Affiliation:
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Abstract

The archaeological profession is currently faced with a shortage of trained personnel, primarily field archaeologists with experience in salvage archaeology. A training program is outlined whereby this shortage can be alleviated. The program recommended consists of a series of courses on the undergraduate level which specifically train the student to meet the demands of a professional position in salvage archaeology. It is anticipated that such a program will attract more students to consider archaeology as a career.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , January 1963 , pp. 392 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Footnotes

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This paper is an outgrowth of ideas presented in discussions following the Symposium on Emergency Archaeology, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Tucson, 1962. Following the writing of this paper, copies were sent to John Corbett, Jesse D., Jennings, Robert L. Stephenson, Walter W. Taylor, and Fred Wendorf for review. Their suggestions have been incorporated into this article and are here gratefully acknowledged.

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