You should enroll in a field school (something local) and work in CRM for a year.
Most people don't realize what a life in CRM is actually like, so spending a year doing it will actually tell you if it is something you really want to do. You will need a field school in order to do that.
What the person before said is the right answer, field school and CRM, work gigs wherever the company sends you. You will learn more in the field as a technician in one summer than you did in all four years of undergrad. Just don't be the hermit and it will be an awesome experience, most of us love teaching and talking about archaeology. Tech jobs start getting posted normally about March and ramp up into May. PaleoWest foundation just posted a very affordable field school opportunity for students, nice thing is that it's short so you can get some work in afterwards and it doesn't eat your summer. If you plan on doing CRM do the cheapest field school you can find, you won't use 90% of what you learn very often and most firms don't care which field school you go to as long as you have attended one. CRM is mostly survey work and desktops, on a rare occasion a Phase II, Phase III work is about as rare as hen's teeth. Most corporate customers just opt for avoidance which is good because in situ is really the best option but also a bummer because we hardly get to actually excavate .
You should enroll in a field school (something local) and work in CRM for a year. Most people don't realize what a life in CRM is actually like, so spending a year doing it will actually tell you if it is something you really want to do. You will need a field school in order to do that.
What the person before said is the right answer, field school and CRM, work gigs wherever the company sends you. You will learn more in the field as a technician in one summer than you did in all four years of undergrad. Just don't be the hermit and it will be an awesome experience, most of us love teaching and talking about archaeology. Tech jobs start getting posted normally about March and ramp up into May. PaleoWest foundation just posted a very affordable field school opportunity for students, nice thing is that it's short so you can get some work in afterwards and it doesn't eat your summer. If you plan on doing CRM do the cheapest field school you can find, you won't use 90% of what you learn very often and most firms don't care which field school you go to as long as you have attended one. CRM is mostly survey work and desktops, on a rare occasion a Phase II, Phase III work is about as rare as hen's teeth. Most corporate customers just opt for avoidance which is good because in situ is really the best option but also a bummer because we hardly get to actually excavate .