A model graduate training programme in public archaeology

• Published in: Antiquity Vol. 74; no. 283; pp. 203 - 208
• Main Authors: Weisman, Brent R., White, Nancy Marie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2000; Portland Press; J. Bellows
• Subjects: Archaeological evidence; Archaeologists; Archaeology; College faculty; College teachers; Colleges & universities; Education; Generalities; Graduates; Popularisation; post-graduate training; Prehistory and protohistory; public archaeology; Special section: Archaeology in education; Study and teaching; Training; universities; USA; United States of America; United States; United States > US; USA; universities; public archaeology; post-graduate training; Program; University; Popularisation; Teaching; Type of publication
• ISSN: 0003-598X; 1745-1744
• DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00066382

As cultural resource management (CRM) in the United States struggles through another period of introspection, one need for improvement consistently identified is in the area of graduate training of future practitioners of CRM archaeology (Fagan 1996; Green & Doershuk 1998; Schuldenrein 1998; Messenger et al. 1999). To what extent training in the practicalities of the field needs to be embodied in curricular coursework, the relative role of research versus applied emphases in the graduate programme, the most appropriate terminal degree for CRM practice, and the very specifics of what constitutes adequate preparation for the diverse and dynamic challenges that constitute contemporary archaeology in the United States, all provide points for the emerging discussion between professionals operating in the field and those in academia who design programmes (e.g. Society for American Archaeology 1995).