Are there many job opportunities for cultural anthropologists or archaeologists?
Oh, jeez, guys, you don’t need a PhD to be an archaeologist. You don’t even need an MA, and I even know a few people who are still working on their bachelor’s. Y’all need to have a chat with your department heads, because they are feeding you lies. I know this because I have a bachelor’s (not in anthropology) but no higher degree, and I’ve worked as an archaeologist for the past four years, both for the federal government and for private corporations. There’s a field called cultural resource management that came about thanks to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. What we do is go into an area that’s going to be developed and make sure nothing’s there. If there is something there, we make suggestions on how the developers should proceed, and, if necessary, we conduct a dig on the site to get as much information as possible before it’s destroyed. Not all development requires this, under the act, but enough does that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of CRM firms in the US. C
