Sonia Hutmacher and Bill White help demystify wages, per diem, and lodging in CRM archaeology. Understanding these numbers (and why they might be lower than you’d hoped) can go a long way to easing tensions and building your longevity in the field.

Recorded from the AFAR Program's 2016 Belize Field School, host Christopher Sims speaks with AFAR's director, Mat Saunders, about this unique organization.

Hear from the people who help make the AFAR program possible, and learn what it means to them.

Hear, in their own words, what AFAR does for the high school students who participate in the program each year.

Brushing off the dust of a several-month-long-hiatus and a solid victory lap around the planet, host Christopher Sims talks to Katie Miller about first steps into a career in archaeology.

Host, Chris Sims, brings some updates on Go Dig a Hole from New Zealand.

How do you make yourself stand out as an undergrad? What does a good job applicant look like? Where do you start when you're building your professional network from scratch? These are the big questions we struggle with early on in our careers as archaeologists, but there's something on your side if you're still in undergrad - opportunity.

Andee and Christopher are joined by Mat Saunders, director of American Foreign Academic Research (AFAR), and four veteran students of the program's field school in Belize. These students - Alex Jameson, Austin Noe, Jordan Reese, and Jack Strachan - are graduating high school seniors with their pick of any college they apply to. What's their competitive advantage? They've gotten the most of their field school experience, and taken their research to professional conferences all over the world. These young stars have some great messages for scholars at any experience level, so hear it in their own words.

This episode features a roundtable discussion with the crew from Digtech, a CRM firm based in Nevada that’s owned by Archaeology Podcast Network founder, Chris Webster. This discussion focuses on strategies to survive the winter as a shovelbum. Some of the highlights include: financial planning, filing for unemployment, making the most of your downtime, keeping your networks warm.

Heath Bailey of the National Park Service joins hosts, Andee Zorn and Christopher Sims. Bailey is a supervising archaeologist at Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina.