Background

Basically, archaeology is like research of the past, using artifacts as clues to piece the puzzle together. As a field archeoligist, I did a TON of walking (we had GPS coordinate lines that we were assigned to stay on) and we would put a flag on anything unusual ( i.e- weird stone cicles, odd loking mounds, flakes[debris of rocks discarded from tool making]).When we did actually dig, it would mostly be these things called shovel tests where we would be assigned coordinates to this little box area. We would record artifacts or anything odd. The 1st company I worked for was in Vernal, Utah called MOAC. The land was beautiful and interesting but the little Morman town wasn't very tolerant of us outsider archaeologists (and that's putting it VERY mildly.) Then I worked for SWCA based out of Denver and that was good because I could keep my home base in Manitou Springs (right up the mountain from Colorado Springs). For SWCA, they would send us off to survey certain different areas before they could build (power lines, wind farms, roads, etc.) We would be sent all over Western Colorado, Wyoming, Eastern Kansas and since none of us were very near our homes, the company would pay for us to stay in long term hotels.