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This is going to be a great story to watch unfold. The cigar sized box was buried in 1795 by Gov. Samuel Adams, patriot Paul Revere, and William Scollay, a militia officer during the Revolution at the cornerstone of the capital that was then finished in 1798. The box is currently being examined and … Read more
Your salary vs Warren Buffet’s We all know Archaeologists do not earn much, but this quick form will make what you earn seem a lot more equal to your engineer cousin when you are both compared to Warren Buffet http://pennystocks.la/warren-buffett/index.html Click on the image to open the interactive version. (Source: http://pennystocks.la).
Please sign the Whitehouse.gov petition to stop the Native American Land Grab In the recent National Defense Authorization Bill H.R. 4355 was a rider granting a legislative land swap near Superior, Ariz., for the benefit of a foreign company Rio Tinto PLC who seek to mine copper. When land swaps do occur, according to a 2010 policy … Read more
Great News! The word is that the Native American Council Will Offers Amnesty to 220 Million(!) Undocumented Whites I was excited to read today from one of the internets most reliable news sources that the Native American Council officially offered Amnesty to the 220 million undocumented whites living on Tribal land. Some highlights from their … Read more
My thoughts go out to the group of CRMers who were just laid off out West. Two weeks before Christmas, thats tough folks. I am really sorry to hear that. For those of you looking to get into CRM this is also a cautionary tale. Funding for projects can be capricious. The general rule of … Read more
Finally! Female Archeology, Geology and Wildlife Biology Legos (Maybe! But they need your help to come to market!) (UPDATE I): If you hear from your friends the links are not working having them visit either the home page of www.ShovelBums.org or give the page 15 seconds to load, the server is getting slammed right now with inbound … Read more
Bummer – The deal is over. But I heard of a good number of people scoring these books at 1997 Prices! UPDATE! The Deal is now live and in the first 15 minutes was 25% claimed Today starting at 5:50 PM EST Amazon is having a lightning deal on the X-Rite Munsell M50215B, Soil … Read more
Greenpeace Fails The Nazca Lines! Greenpeace in an effort to draw the attention of 190 delegates in Lima, Peru for climate change talks tried a publicity stunt to raise awareness that the “future is renewable”. And in the process destroyed part of the Nazca lines (which are not renewable!). Peru is seeking criminal … Read more
Help! R. Joe I see a job but I can’t see the email address! I almost feel bad posting this tip. Because in a way it acts as a vetting process for applicants for employers 😉 But I hear it enough so I will share the secret 🙂 Because I use YahooGroups as the … Read more
After consulting with the users of ShovelBums I am implementing a fee change effective April 5th 2011 as detailed in this message to the 15,000+ member of ShovelBums. The new fee for posting a job will be $100 per job advertistement/job class (this is 1/4 the price of an advertisement on Monster.com). For example: If you … Read more
Join 13000+ other professionals so you can be completely current on ShovelBums job announcements. You can learn when and where the jobs are happening, and what skills are in demand. There are two really easy ways of joining the ShovelBums mailing list. 1 – Just send a blank email to ShovelBums+subscribe@groups.io, respond to it, and there you go. … Read more
When you submit an Archaeology or Anthropology teaching position or Cultural Resource Management job to ShovelBums you reach over 13,000 professional archaeologists immediately! It is easy (well kind of), read on: NOTE: Important information about the fee structure for posting on ShovelBums is below TL:DR:What you need to do first is Join the ShovelBums mailing … Read more