Topic ID #156 - posted 2/14/2007 4:38 PM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Secretary of the Interior (SOI) Professional Qualifications
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
From the archaeologyfieldwork.com archives...
Originally posted by
AMB
senior website member
Professional Qualifications-SOI
Apr 20th, 2002, 3:12pm
For those of you new to the field who are trying to understand the hierarchy of CRM, below are the Federal standards to which CRM companies must comply to do contract archaeology. In general, these requirements apply to the Project Manager or Principal Investigator .
Professional Qualifications Standards
The following requirements are those used by the National Park Service, and have been previously published in the Code of Federal Regulations, 36 CFR Part 61. The qualifications define minimum education and experience required to perform identification, evaluation, registration, and treatment activities. In some cases, additional areas or levels of expertise may be needed, depending on the complexity of the task and the nature of the historic properties involved. In the following definitions, a year of full-time professional experience need not consist of a continuous year of full-time work but may be made up of discontinuous periods of full-time or part-time work adding up to the equivalent of a year of full-time experience.
Archeology
The minimum professional qualifications in archeology are a graduate degree in archeology, anthropology, or closely related field plus :
1. At least one year of full-time professional experience or equivalent specialized training in archeological research, administration or management;
2. At least four months of supervised field and analytic experience in general North American archeology, and
3. Demonstrated ability to carry research to completion.
In addition to these minimum qualifications, a professional in prehistoric archeology shall have at least one year of full-time professional experience at a supervisory level in the study of archeological resources of the prehistoric period. A professional in historic archeology shall have at least one year of full-time professional experience at a supervisory level in the study of archeological resources of the historic period.
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Below are the requirements to be a Registered Professional Archaeologist (required for Project Managers and Principal Investigators in some states, optional in others).
Advanced Degree(s). The applicant must have an advanced degree (such as an M.A., M.S., Ph.D., or D.Sc.) from an accredited institution in archeology, anthropology, art history, classics, history, or other germane discipline with a specialization in archaeology.
Execution of an Archaeological Study. The applicant must have designed and executed an archeological study and have reported on that research in the form of a master’s thesis, Ph.D. dissertation or report (or several smaller reports that together are) equivalent in scope and quality to a master’s thesis or Ph.D. dissertation. A purely descriptive report, however long, is not considered equivalent. The thesis, dissertation, or report must show a substantive data analysis by the applicant directed toward an explicit archaeological research problem.
Field and Laboratory Experience. The applicant must document a minimum of one-year (52 weeks) of field and laboratory experience, gained in blocks of at least 4 weeks duration , distributed as stipulated in sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 below.
4.1 Supervised Field Experience. The applicant must document 16 weeks of supervised excavation/testing and survey experience, of which no more than 8 weeks can be surface survey. The experience must have been done under the supervision of an RPA or an archaeologist who meets the requirements to be a Registered Professional Archeologist.
4.2 Supervised Laboratory Experience. The applicant must document 16 weeks of supervised laboratory experience. The experience must have been done under the supervision of an RPA or an archaeologist who meets the requirements to be a Registered Professional Archaeologist. Laboratory experience is defined as processing, cataloging, analyzing, and curating archaeological collections; analyzing archaeological field records (e.g., of architecture, features, stratigraphy, settlement patterns); or archival research on primary historical documents related to an archaeological project (which is not equivalent to ordinary library research).
4.3 Supervisory Research Experience. The applicant must have 20 weeks experience in supervising the conduct of excavation/testing, survey, and/or laboratory work. Supervisory and supervised experience may have been gained at the same time (e.g., as a crew chief working under the supervision of a field director), but such experience cannot be counted in more than one section of this application.
RPA must also agree to uphold the RPA Code of Conduct and Standards of Research performance avaialable at http://www.rpanet.org/
Originally posted by
AMB
senior website member
Professional Qualifications-SOI
Apr 20th, 2002, 3:12pm
For those of you new to the field who are trying to understand the hierarchy of CRM, below are the Federal standards to which CRM companies must comply to do contract archaeology. In general, these requirements apply to the Project Manager or Principal Investigator .
Professional Qualifications Standards
The following requirements are those used by the National Park Service, and have been previously published in the Code of Federal Regulations, 36 CFR Part 61. The qualifications define minimum education and experience required to perform identification, evaluation, registration, and treatment activities. In some cases, additional areas or levels of expertise may be needed, depending on the complexity of the task and the nature of the historic properties involved. In the following definitions, a year of full-time professional experience need not consist of a continuous year of full-time work but may be made up of discontinuous periods of full-time or part-time work adding up to the equivalent of a year of full-time experience.
Archeology
The minimum professional qualifications in archeology are a graduate degree in archeology, anthropology, or closely related field plus :
1. At least one year of full-time professional experience or equivalent specialized training in archeological research, administration or management;
2. At least four months of supervised field and analytic experience in general North American archeology, and
3. Demonstrated ability to carry research to completion.
In addition to these minimum qualifications, a professional in prehistoric archeology shall have at least one year of full-time professional experience at a supervisory level in the study of archeological resources of the prehistoric period. A professional in historic archeology shall have at least one year of full-time professional experience at a supervisory level in the study of archeological resources of the historic period.
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Below are the requirements to be a Registered Professional Archaeologist (required for Project Managers and Principal Investigators in some states, optional in others).
Advanced Degree(s). The applicant must have an advanced degree (such as an M.A., M.S., Ph.D., or D.Sc.) from an accredited institution in archeology, anthropology, art history, classics, history, or other germane discipline with a specialization in archaeology.
Execution of an Archaeological Study. The applicant must have designed and executed an archeological study and have reported on that research in the form of a master’s thesis, Ph.D. dissertation or report (or several smaller reports that together are) equivalent in scope and quality to a master’s thesis or Ph.D. dissertation. A purely descriptive report, however long, is not considered equivalent. The thesis, dissertation, or report must show a substantive data analysis by the applicant directed toward an explicit archaeological research problem.
Field and Laboratory Experience. The applicant must document a minimum of one-year (52 weeks) of field and laboratory experience, gained in blocks of at least 4 weeks duration , distributed as stipulated in sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 below.
4.1 Supervised Field Experience. The applicant must document 16 weeks of supervised excavation/testing and survey experience, of which no more than 8 weeks can be surface survey. The experience must have been done under the supervision of an RPA or an archaeologist who meets the requirements to be a Registered Professional Archeologist.
4.2 Supervised Laboratory Experience. The applicant must document 16 weeks of supervised laboratory experience. The experience must have been done under the supervision of an RPA or an archaeologist who meets the requirements to be a Registered Professional Archaeologist. Laboratory experience is defined as processing, cataloging, analyzing, and curating archaeological collections; analyzing archaeological field records (e.g., of architecture, features, stratigraphy, settlement patterns); or archival research on primary historical documents related to an archaeological project (which is not equivalent to ordinary library research).
4.3 Supervisory Research Experience. The applicant must have 20 weeks experience in supervising the conduct of excavation/testing, survey, and/or laboratory work. Supervisory and supervised experience may have been gained at the same time (e.g., as a crew chief working under the supervision of a field director), but such experience cannot be counted in more than one section of this application.
RPA must also agree to uphold the RPA Code of Conduct and Standards of Research performance avaialable at http://www.rpanet.org/
Post ID#251 - replied 2/15/2007 3:23 PM
Dmack89
Actually, the only mention of these standards in federal law is that the SHPO office will employ someone that meets them. Beyond that, states and agencies have adopted them as a matter of practice, they have been inlcuded in local standards, and in some cases individual states have passed laws that refer to them or reuse the same language.
If you want a real diatribe on the issue, get Tom King going.....
Beyond that - they are a good guideline that really should be followed.
DM
If you want a real diatribe on the issue, get Tom King going.....
Beyond that - they are a good guideline that really should be followed.
DM
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