Lone Mountain Archaeological Services
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, EL PASO, TEXAS
Are you a Principal Investigator who would like to conduct research and publish your contributions to the field of Southwestern archaeology? If you are, then Lone Mountain Archaeological Services needs you in its El Paso office! Most 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, research, and analysis. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and analytical skills, a cultural ecology or human behavioral archaeological perspective, West Texas, Southwest and/or Great Basin experience, and the desire to work in one of the richest cultural locations in the southwest. Almost 15,000 years of human activity is documented at Fort Bliss as well as the earliest radiocarbon date (13,020 to 12,200 B.C.) ever recorded in the Tularosa Basin. Much has been done, but much is yet to be discovered.
Your field personnel will be supported with the highest level of technology available in cultural resources management today. We are constantly improving field procedures and developing survey methods using GPS, digital photography, field computers, magnetic susceptibility testing, TRU, and GIS. Lone Mountain has created its own custom survey technique, bringing GPS, TRU, and PDA technologies together in one hand-held device enabling field crews to conduct immediate paperless surface assemblage surveys. Lone Mountain also employs the latest geoarchaeological and data analysis techniques. We conduct phosphate, protein residue, phytolith, and pollen analyses, FTIR, and XRF studies. Immediate soils analyses are conducted in our own lab. Applicants who are eager to help shape our research goals and aren't afraid to explore new techniques are especially sought. Dogged persistence and practical problem solving are required attributes.
All applicants must meet the qualifications for Archaeologists contained in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation (48 FR 44720-44726). Applicants should have a graduate degree in anthropology, archaeology, or a related field, and at least five (5) years of supervisory experience. Of total work experience, at least two years must have been in the southwest (Southern California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas). Applicants should also be able to document the successful completion of at least two research projects and at least one (1) regional or national level publication on cultural resources. GIS experience is an asset.
Lone Mountain is offering a competitive salary ranging from $50,000 to $60,000.00 with paid health and dental insurance, a 401K, two weeks of paid time off, and ten Federal holidays per year. Employment is dependent upon the acceptance of the applicant's qualifications by Fort Bliss. Please send 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
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
