Lone Mountain Archaeological Services
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/GEOARCHAEOLOGIST
Are you interested in developing a comprehensive Geoarchaeological program using state-of-the-art technology? Would you like to work in some of the most exciting areas in the Southwest? Come and work for Lone Mountain, one of the most innovative companies in the field of Cultural Resources management.
Lone Mountain Archaeological Services is looking for an Assistant Principal Investigator (API)/Geoarchaeologist. The API will assist the PI in supervising geoarchaeological investigations for projects in Texas and New Mexico. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and analytical skills, and an ability to stay within the parameters of the research design and the project budget and schedule. The position can be based in either our Albuquerque, New Mexico office or our El Paso, Texas office. The successful applicant will be involved in projects for both offices and must be willing to travel a moderate part of the time. The API position is salaried, starting at a minimum of $50,000.00 per year, plus paid health and dental insurance, two weeks paid annual leave, 10 paid federal holidays per year, and a 401K plan.
Lone Mountain is dedicated to contributing to the larger discipline of Southwest archaeology, particularly by developing geoarchaeological investigation techniques. To that end, we have implemented state-of-the-art technology in both the field and the lab. Basic physical and phosphate analyses are conducted at our soils laboratory in the El Paso office. We will soon be capable of conducting in-house geochemical, micromorphological, and organic analyses, the latter using UV-VIS-NIR and FTIR techniques. Lone Mountain has a nascent geophysical program with a Bartington MS-2 magnetometer with down-hole probe, and a Meggers electrical resistivity meter. We are currently beginning development of a library of magnetometer signatures which will prove invaluable to future investigators, enabling non-intrusive identification of feature types in the field. Lone Mountain is the first to bring GPS, TRU, and PDA technologies together enabling field crews to conduct paperless TRU surveys. We are proud to share these innovations with others in the CRM field, benefiting the entire discipline of Southwestern archaeology.
Much of our work takes place on the vast U.S. Army Fort Bliss Air Defense Training Center, affording us the unique opportunity to engage in substantial data recovery, analysis, and research. Fort Bliss lies in the northern Chihuahuan desert where almost 15,000 years of human activity has been documented. The project area boasts the earliest radiocarbon date (13,020 to 12,200 B.C.) that has ever been documented in the Tularosa Basin. Much has been done, but much is yet to be discovered.
Applicants should have data analysis/GIS experience, and an ability to write major sections of the final report with minimal supervision and editing. A background in soils and/or geophysical remote sensing is preferred. The API must meet Fort Bliss qualification standards, a M.A. minimum and three years of experience, with one year in the Southwest.
Please send CVs with references to:
Fred Almarez
Lone Mountain Archaeological Services, Inc.
5 Butterfield Trail, Suite F
El Paso, TX
79906
phone 915-771-7887
fax 915-771-0325
Or Email
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: LAB MANAGER
Lone Mountain Archaeological Service's El Paso, Texas office is seeking bright, ambitious applicants for the following position: laboratory manager. The key qualities we are seeking are:
- Organizational skills
- Methodical
- Problem Solver
- Proactive
- Technological Savvy
- Passionate
- Experienced in all phases of artifact analysis
The lab manager oversees the processing and analyses of all physical archaeological samples collected during fieldwork and insures that all artifact analysis is consistent and conforms to requirements. The lab manager is also responsible for writing and updating our lab manual and contributing to reports. Applicants must be able to develop artifact analysis designs to meet project needs and research goals, as well as maintain knowledge of the "state-of-art" in artifact analysis. The lab manager is directly responsible for the quality of data produced by the artifact analysts, as well as providing necessary information for data reports. The lab manager must approve lab data for use before write-up or further analyses, and is responsible for preparing artifacts for curation, and artifacts/samples for outside analyses. Besides these duties, the lab manager will be expected to manage Lone Mountain's experimental program. In the past, this has included open-pit ceramic firing, brownware cooking, and resource harvesting experiments.
The laboratory manager must have an undergraduate degree in anthropology, archeology, history, or a related field, and a minimum of 24 months experience as a supervisor of an archeological laboratory under the supervision of an Archeologist who meets the requirements for Prinicipal Investigator. Lab managers must have working knowledge of 36CFR79 (Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archaeological Collections); any knowledge of the Fort Bliss curatorial system is a benefit. Applicants must have demonstrated computer knowledge and experience in the following: Microsoft ACCESS or other relational database management system, and Arcview (3.2 and higher). Knowledge of related software programs such as Microsoft EXCEL, MS OneNote, and MS Word would be helpful. Applicants should possess a wide knowledge of archaeological and anthropological method and theory, or be prepared to invest their own time to gain such knowledge. In particular, applicants should be conversant in the current literature of all of the following areas; faunal analysis, lithic analysis, GIS, or data analysis. Applicants should be able to articulate their theoretical orientation and specifically understand a cultural ecological and behavioral ecological perspective.
The lab manager position is a salaried, full-time position with a starting salary of $50,000.00 per year, plus benefits. Manager positions are considered key positions within Lone Mountain and offer a variety of challenges and opportunities to shape how Lone Mountain, and the discipline as a whole, does archaeology.
Lone Mountain's El Paso office conducts large-scale field investigations on Fort Bliss (Texas/New Mexico), an Army training center encompassing 1.2 million acres of land in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. The archaeology ranges from Folsom sites to Spanish Colonial, historic ranching, and Cold War, although most sites represent the remains of mobile to semi-sedentary prehistoric populations. In addition, the El Paso office's laboratory is likely to be involved in the processing and analyses of artifacts and samples for BLM projects in southeastern New Mexico. The El Paso office offers an ability to contribute to the development of long-range research strategies implemented in a variety of field studies ranging from survey through data recovery, with data recovery becoming a more significant component. We encourage independent work and publication.
Interested applicants should submit a CV with references to:
Tim Church
Lone Mountain Archaeological Services, Inc.
5 Butterfield Trail, Suite F
El Paso, TX
79906
phone 915-771-7887
fax 915-771-0325
Or Email
