Practicing Archaeology - 3rd Edition by Thomas W Neumann & Robert M Sanford & Mary Spink Neumann (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Here's the perfect one-stop for courses in field archaeology and archaeologists just beginning their initial field work. Current, up-to-date and comprehensive, this is how "it's really done" in the field.

Review Quotes

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.

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.

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.

About the Author

THO-MAS W. NEU-MANN established, then directed for many years, the doctoral program in anthropological archaeology at Syracuse University, served as a research associate for the State University of New York Research Founda-tion, and since 1985 has worked as a corporate archaeologist and research administrator, serving variously as senior partner or senior scientist for national cultural resources firms.
Neumann is the author or co-author of over 80 books and monographs, and has published articles in Current Anthropology, American Antiquity, American Archaeology, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Plains Anthropologist, and the Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, to name a few.
Neumann has served as an external grants reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities and for the National Science Foundation, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists. Amongst various historic preservation awards, he was co-recipient of the Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (1992) for his work on the Third Haven Meeting House in Easton, Maryland. He has received a number of awards for outstanding teaching, including from Phi Beta Kappa in 2006 as visiting faculty at Emory University, something Emory normally does not allow.
ROBERT M. SANFORD served for several years as a research associate for the State University of New York Research Foundation and later as a partner and corporate archaeologist in New York cultural resources firms. Sanford taught anthropology, environmental science, and environmental policy as adjunct faculty at the Community College of Vermont, Johnson State College, and Antioch New England Graduate School. He currently is a faculty member in the Univer-sity of Southern Maine's Environmental Science and Policy Program, a position he has held since 1996.
His articles treating archaeo-logy, environmen-tal policy, and landscape analysis have appeared in The Environmental Professional, Land Use Policy, Journal of Vermont Archaeology, American Archaeology, and American Antiquity.
MARY SPINK NEUMANN(nee Mary L. Spink taught Anthropology as an instructor and served as an archaeometric laboratory technician at the Pennsylvania State University. She worked as a field assistant or senior technician in Pennsylvania cultural resources firms. At the behest of the Honduran government, she conducted research on the country's prehistoric ground stone tools as a U.S. Agency for International Development Academic Specialist and as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar. Between 1987 and 2018, she was employed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a Behavioral Scientist in infectious diseases. Neumann is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Consulting Archaeologist at the Pocket Park--Wentworth Analytical Facility.
She has published articles on archaeology ranging from Yaxkin to the Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology, and on public health and safety in PLoS ONE, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Reports, and the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), amongst others.