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In the past I have often fielded questions about my background & involvement in archaeologyfieldwork.com so perhaps an introduction is in order. A native of northeastern Pennsylvania, I first dabbled in advertising design and radio & TV production at Marywood College, then transferred to Indiana University of Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Anthropology in 1996. More recently, I've completed coursework for a Certificate in Historic Preservation at Drew University in 2004. I have been working for private firms and the federal government within cultural resource management for over a decade. Fieldwork over the this time period has found me on over 156 projects throughout Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arizona, and Florida as an archaeological field technician, crew chief and field supervisor. My husband and I spend much of our time restoring a historic 1890 farmhouse in the Pocono Mtns. of Pennsylvania. When I'm not working on this website or out digging holes, I am otherwise likely to be found hiking, camping, geocaching, traveling, reading, watching foreign and indie films, listening to music or NPR, or adding to my web blog.
Hosting an online community has been something I've had experience with in one way or another for many years. With my brother John's generous help, I was fortunate enough to be online over twenty years ago participating in one of the earliest Atari 800 computer bulletin board systems in the U.S. (when the internet was still mostly the domain of the government, and recreational computer users would communicate with each other by dialing PCs directly, incurring huge long-distance bills!). John wrote his own BBS software and had to build a ring-detector from scratch out of electronic parts to enable our primitive 300 baud modem to be able to answer incoming calls. At the time as youngsters perhaps we fancied ourselves on the cutting edge (along with owners of other 8-bit Ataris, Commodore 64s, Timex-Sinclair 1000s and whatnot), but as much as we often thought of the future, we could have never predicted how popular personal computing would become with the advent of an internet accessible to the masses. Though a lot has changed since then, I still marvel that technology has had the ability to bring together so many people spread throughout the world.
This website, in its first incarnation, initially went online as part of my brother's domain in 1996 known as simply 'Jennifer's Website'. Archaeology content was quickly added and soon came to dominate the rest of the site. At this point I was finishing my BA, having gotten my feet wet with a few years of sporadic archaeology fieldwork. My early jobs were procured mostly through school connections and word-of-mouth, and I had an idea that perhaps the website could serve as a clearinghouse for employment resources for other field technicians. The site moved to a new domain at arch.hutchey.com, and assumed something close to its present form. After a brief hiatus in 2000, I returned again to the world of internet archaeology with the permanent domain of archaeologyfieldwork.com and a renewed focus: to provide useful content to others working in the field of archaeology and cultural resource management. In the past, job listings were laboriously posted to a dedicated web page when I had time and access to internet service (not always easy with life on the road as an travelling archaeologist). Since then I have incorporated a series of message forums where individuals could post employment openings and see their advertisement added immediately, without having to go through me. I've also continued to pass along job advertisements from other sources on the web. With the addition of the employment forum came field schools, a section for students, volunteer opportunities, resume postings, a discussion board, and other forums as well as the addition of several other features... all designed to provide information on fieldwork leads and other related information that website visitors have asked for.
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