Practicing Archaeology is the book the profession wish it had in the 1990s. The first edition was published in 2001 and has been an accepted coursebook since. It’s written in a slightly informal voice, reaching out to the student encompassing the wide scope of all the profession entails. It incorporates decades of the authors’ and the authors’ peers, students, and other professionals’ anecdotes and first-hand trials and tribulations in each key aspect of the changing business of archaeology.

BORG

Practicing Archaeology is an essential resource for students pursuing a career in cultural resource management (CRM), which is the industry that employs most archaeologists working in the U.S. today. All archaeology curricula should include specific training in CRM, and this textbook is the best guide to this industry.

Dr. Kelly Jenks, RPA, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico State University

Neumann, Sanford, and Neumann have raised the bar once again. This updated version of an industry and academic classic should be required reading for any professional or anyone entertaining the thought of a career in Cultural Resource Management.

Thomas H. Flanigan, Ph.D., Federal Agency Archaeologist, Adjunct Professor, University of Utah and Salt Lake Community College