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Cory Boling, 27 years old, left, 26 years old Ricky Matthew Kopec, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. Prehistoric artifacts and archaeologists excavated at Fort Benning, Georgia. The temperature of the company's base that has been in operation since 1993 rose to over 110 degrees last summer.

Harley Lanham has been a contract archaeologist since 1974 and spends about 6 months per year. "I am training the next generation," he said. "I do not think about doing anything else"

They call themselves "shovel burns", and they are the backbone of archeology in this country. These men and women are more properly called contract archeologists who form the labor force of the cultural heritage management (CRM) industry. This is an archaeological project represented by bureaucracy, it is influenced by the development project by the public construction and government funds. Federal, state and private funds spend approximately $ 1 billion per year on CRM projects, accounting for approximately 95% of the US archeology.

Contract archaeologists, however, often do not have any benefit, many employment guarantees are not going forward. They work at construction sites, military bases, highways, and other places where laws require archaeological work before development. Spectacular discovery is rare. (There is an exception to this problem, an example of which is in CRM New South Associates in Puerto Rico.) Archaeologist's career is an awkward bulldozer business and moving from one project to another project During the project, I will dig a pit. They are responsible for protecting the majority of the country's heritage, but they are rarely known in general.

So, when photographer Lauren Lancaster announced a photo article exploring the world of a typical CRM project, we got the opportunity to introduce those who truly realized archeology. Lancaster is a former contract archaeologist who spent a week in Fort Benning, Georgia in August last year and is filming Panamerican Consultants, Inc. Employees, this is a large CRM company with offices in eastern United States. She took them to the battlefield where they spent hours practicing at the Army 's largest training center and spent hours with them to capture archaeologists' roving lifestyle with a series of vivid images.

It is difficult to estimate how many contract archaeologists work in this country, but www.shovelbums.org is a website that promotes CRM work with 12,000 registered users. These images are exploring the world of several shovel hooligans.

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They call themselves "shovel burns", and they are the backbone of archeology in this country. These men and women are more properly called contract archeologists who form the labor force of the cultural heritage management (CRM) industry. This is an archaeological project represented by bureaucracy, it is influenced by the development project by the public construction and government funds. Federal, state and private funds spend about $ 1 billion per year on CRM projects, accounting for about 95% of the US archeology.

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