Jeffrey H Altschul
Biographic Data
| ID | 247267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey H Altschul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey H |
| FAMILY NAME | Altschul |
| SIGNATURE | ALTSCHUL J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Statistical Research (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3011-0898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers
What North American Archaeology Needs to Take Advantage of the Digital Data Revolution
Today, there is a growing movement to use accumulated archaeological information to contribute to discussions of general issues facing human societies, including our own. In this regard, the archaeological record is most unique and helpful when viewed at broad comparative scales. Most relevant data for these sorts of analyses are collected through the cultural resource management (CRM) process. Still, by and large, interpretation remains limited …
Forecast for the US CRM Industry and Job Market, 2022–2031
In the next 10 years, the US cultural resource management (CRM) industry will grow in terms of monies spent on CRM activities and the size of the CRM labor force. Between US fiscal years 2022 and 2031, annual spending on CRM will increase from about $1.46 to $1.85 billion, due in part to growth in the US economy but also to an added $1 billion of CRM activities conducted in response to the newly passed infrastructure bill. The increased spending …
Cultural Heritage Management: Project Management
Connecting the Dots: Integrating Cultural and Natural Resource Management in the United States
Landholding agencies in the United States are under increasing pressure to integrate cultural and natural resource management approaches at a landscape level and to do so earlier and more comprehensively in planning processes. How to integrate management practices is poorly understood, however. An impediment to integration is that the laws, methods, and tools used in cultural and natural resource management differ significantly. Natural resource …
Cultural Heritage Management: Project Management
Modelling Resource Values and Climate Change Impacts to Set Preservation and Research Priorities
Climate change impacts will increase in their frequency and severity in the coming decades, resulting in compromised integrity or destruction of thousands of heritage resources. Efforts are needed to identify, record, and study resources that will be affected. To set research and preservation priorities, the vulnerability of resources to climate change impacts and their importance to scientific research, preservation, and other resource values ne…
Fostering Collaborative Synthetic Research in Archaeology
While our fascination with understanding the past is sufficient to warrant an increased focus on synthesis, solutions to important problems facing modern society require understandings based on data that only archaeology can provide. Yet, even as we use public monies to collect ever-greater amounts of data, modes of research that can stimulate emergent understandings of human behavior have lagged behind. Consequently, a substantial amount of arch…
A Slave Who Would Be King: Oral Tradition and Archaeology of the Recent Past in the Upper Senegal River Basin
This report makes a significant contribution to the archaeology and ethnography of eastern Senegal. Combining ethnographic and archaeological data yields a picture of a period of intense social change at the end of the 19th century which extended well into the mid-20th century
The Society for American Archaeology’s Task Forces on Landscape Policy Issues
The management of cultural resources by federal land-managing agencies in the United States is moving in the direction of programmatic approaches that consider archaeological resources on a regional or landscape level. In 2014, the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), in response to meetings with federal agencies, established three task forces on issues related to landscape-scale cultural resource management (CRM). The task forces focused on: …
Cultural Dynamics, Deep Time, and Data: Planning Cyberinfrastructure Investments for Archaeology
Archaeological data and research results are essential to addressing such fundamental questions as the origins of human culture; the origin, waxing, and waning of civilizations and cities; the response of societies to long-term climate changes; and the systemic relationships implicated in human-induced changes in the environment. However, we lack the capacity for acquiring, managing, analyzing, and synthesizing the data sets needed to address imp…
The Making of the Map: The Origin and Lessons of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project
The mapping of the ancient city of Teotihuacan was an archaeological project of singular importance in the history of archaeology. In this paper, we discuss the origin and history of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (TMP) through a series of personal vignettes written by the project's leader, René Millon, which are put into larger context by Jeff Altschul, one of the many students who worked on the project. We examine the characteristics that led …
Grand challenges for archaeology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Cultural Heritage Management and Economic Development Programmes: Perspectives from Desert Fringes Where IGOs and NGOs Have No Locus
The range of organizations involved in some way with cultural heritage management stand in proxy for an equally wide range of concerns and viewpoints. While these viewpoints differ considerably in detail, we suggest that a fundamental objective of all these organizations is to ensure that an appropriate kind and degree of cultural heritage work occurs within development contexts. The last twenty years has witnessed such progress in the underlying…
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
The Accuracy and Adequacy of In-Field Artifact Analysis: An Experimental Test at Two Archaeological Sites in the Western United States
Archaeologists have traditionally collected artifacts during survey in order to analyze them in a laboratory setting and curate the artifacts and associated documentation for future analysis, interpretation, and preservation. In recent decades, however, there has been a trend in the western United States to avoid collection during survey and to relegate most artifact analysis to the field, typically conducted by field crew. Despite heavy reliance…
Forum Sustaining the Digital Archaeological Record
Preparing for Work in the Billion-Dollar CRM Industry
Shirley Fiske is contributing editor of "Anthropology Works," the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
The Register of Professional Archaeologists' Standards Are Voluntary: But Voluntarism May Not Be Sufficient for the Public
Archeology Division: RPA and AAA: A Continuing Alliance
Vanishing River. Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley--The Lower Verde Valley Archaeological Project
Seven decades ago President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal inaugurated archaeology as a source of employment for those affected by the Great Depression. Since then, explains volume co-editor J. H. Altschul, cultural resource management (CRM) has matured as an industry that involves highly trained archaeologists and specialists in several fields and offers hands-on learning opportunities for students. Today, CRM is a respected and well-funde…
The Archaic-Formative Transition in the Tucson Basin: An Introduction
The Development of the Chacoan Interaction Sphere
Recent attempts to account for the transition from small villages to large towns in the San Juan basin between A.D. 900 and 1150 have all focused on the unique characteristics of one area, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. It is believed that by emphasizing this area to the exclusion of all others the cultural phenomenon being examined has been unduly simplified. The concept of an "interaction sphere" is introduced as an attempt to overcome this problem …
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
Cultural Dynamics, Deep Time, and Data: Planning Cyberinfrastructure Investments for Archaeology
Archaeological data and research results are essential to addressing such fundamental questions as the origins of human culture; the origin, waxing, and waning of civilizations and cities; the response of societies to long-term climate changes; and the systemic relationships implicated in human-induced changes in the environment. However, we lack the capacity for acquiring, managing, analyzing, and synthesizing the data sets needed to address imp…
Fostering Collaborative Synthetic Research in Archaeology
While our fascination with understanding the past is sufficient to warrant an increased focus on synthesis, solutions to important problems facing modern society require understandings based on data that only archaeology can provide. Yet, even as we use public monies to collect ever-greater amounts of data, modes of research that can stimulate emergent understandings of human behavior have lagged behind. Consequently, a substantial amount of arch…
Forecast for the US CRM Industry and Job Market, 2022–2031
In the next 10 years, the US cultural resource management (CRM) industry will grow in terms of monies spent on CRM activities and the size of the CRM labor force. Between US fiscal years 2022 and 2031, annual spending on CRM will increase from about $1.46 to $1.85 billion, due in part to growth in the US economy but also to an added $1 billion of CRM activities conducted in response to the newly passed infrastructure bill. The increased spending …
The Development of the Chacoan Interaction Sphere
Recent attempts to account for the transition from small villages to large towns in the San Juan basin between A.D. 900 and 1150 have all focused on the unique characteristics of one area, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. It is believed that by emphasizing this area to the exclusion of all others the cultural phenomenon being examined has been unduly simplified. The concept of an "interaction sphere" is introduced as an attempt to overcome this problem …
The Accuracy and Adequacy of In-Field Artifact Analysis: An Experimental Test at Two Archaeological Sites in the Western United States
Archaeologists have traditionally collected artifacts during survey in order to analyze them in a laboratory setting and curate the artifacts and associated documentation for future analysis, interpretation, and preservation. In recent decades, however, there has been a trend in the western United States to avoid collection during survey and to relegate most artifact analysis to the field, typically conducted by field crew. Despite heavy reliance…
The Society for American Archaeology’s Task Forces on Landscape Policy Issues
The management of cultural resources by federal land-managing agencies in the United States is moving in the direction of programmatic approaches that consider archaeological resources on a regional or landscape level. In 2014, the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), in response to meetings with federal agencies, established three task forces on issues related to landscape-scale cultural resource management (CRM). The task forces focused on: …
The Making of the Map: The Origin and Lessons of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project
The mapping of the ancient city of Teotihuacan was an archaeological project of singular importance in the history of archaeology. In this paper, we discuss the origin and history of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (TMP) through a series of personal vignettes written by the project's leader, René Millon, which are put into larger context by Jeff Altschul, one of the many students who worked on the project. We examine the characteristics that led …
What North American Archaeology Needs to Take Advantage of the Digital Data Revolution
Today, there is a growing movement to use accumulated archaeological information to contribute to discussions of general issues facing human societies, including our own. In this regard, the archaeological record is most unique and helpful when viewed at broad comparative scales. Most relevant data for these sorts of analyses are collected through the cultural resource management (CRM) process. Still, by and large, interpretation remains limited …
Forum Sustaining the Digital Archaeological Record
Preparing for Work in the Billion-Dollar CRM Industry
Shirley Fiske is contributing editor of "Anthropology Works," the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
The Development of the Chacoan Interaction Sphere
Recent attempts to account for the transition from small villages to large towns in the San Juan basin between A.D. 900 and 1150 have all focused on the unique characteristics of one area, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. It is believed that by emphasizing this area to the exclusion of all others the cultural phenomenon being examined has been unduly simplified. The concept of an "interaction sphere" is introduced as an attempt to overcome this problem …
The Archaic-Formative Transition in the Tucson Basin: An Introduction
Vanishing River. Landscapes and Lives of the Lower Verde Valley--The Lower Verde Valley Archaeological Project
Seven decades ago President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal inaugurated archaeology as a source of employment for those affected by the Great Depression. Since then, explains volume co-editor J. H. Altschul, cultural resource management (CRM) has matured as an industry that involves highly trained archaeologists and specialists in several fields and offers hands-on learning opportunities for students. Today, CRM is a respected and well-funde…
Archeology Division: RPA and AAA: A Continuing Alliance
The Register of Professional Archaeologists' Standards Are Voluntary: But Voluntarism May Not Be Sufficient for the Public
Preparing for Work in the Billion-Dollar CRM Industry
Shirley Fiske is contributing editor of "Anthropology Works," the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
Forum Sustaining the Digital Archaeological Record
The Accuracy and Adequacy of In-Field Artifact Analysis: An Experimental Test at Two Archaeological Sites in the Western United States
Archaeologists have traditionally collected artifacts during survey in order to analyze them in a laboratory setting and curate the artifacts and associated documentation for future analysis, interpretation, and preservation. In recent decades, however, there has been a trend in the western United States to avoid collection during survey and to relegate most artifact analysis to the field, typically conducted by field crew. Despite heavy reliance…
Grand challenges for archaeology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Cultural Heritage Management and Economic Development Programmes: Perspectives from Desert Fringes Where IGOs and NGOs Have No Locus
The range of organizations involved in some way with cultural heritage management stand in proxy for an equally wide range of concerns and viewpoints. While these viewpoints differ considerably in detail, we suggest that a fundamental objective of all these organizations is to ensure that an appropriate kind and degree of cultural heritage work occurs within development contexts. The last twenty years has witnessed such progress in the underlying…
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
Cultural Dynamics, Deep Time, and Data: Planning Cyberinfrastructure Investments for Archaeology
Archaeological data and research results are essential to addressing such fundamental questions as the origins of human culture; the origin, waxing, and waning of civilizations and cities; the response of societies to long-term climate changes; and the systemic relationships implicated in human-induced changes in the environment. However, we lack the capacity for acquiring, managing, analyzing, and synthesizing the data sets needed to address imp…
The Making of the Map: The Origin and Lessons of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project
The mapping of the ancient city of Teotihuacan was an archaeological project of singular importance in the history of archaeology. In this paper, we discuss the origin and history of the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (TMP) through a series of personal vignettes written by the project's leader, René Millon, which are put into larger context by Jeff Altschul, one of the many students who worked on the project. We examine the characteristics that led …
A Slave Who Would Be King: Oral Tradition and Archaeology of the Recent Past in the Upper Senegal River Basin
This report makes a significant contribution to the archaeology and ethnography of eastern Senegal. Combining ethnographic and archaeological data yields a picture of a period of intense social change at the end of the 19th century which extended well into the mid-20th century
The Society for American Archaeology’s Task Forces on Landscape Policy Issues
The management of cultural resources by federal land-managing agencies in the United States is moving in the direction of programmatic approaches that consider archaeological resources on a regional or landscape level. In 2014, the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), in response to meetings with federal agencies, established three task forces on issues related to landscape-scale cultural resource management (CRM). The task forces focused on: …
Cultural Heritage Management: Project Management
Modelling Resource Values and Climate Change Impacts to Set Preservation and Research Priorities
Climate change impacts will increase in their frequency and severity in the coming decades, resulting in compromised integrity or destruction of thousands of heritage resources. Efforts are needed to identify, record, and study resources that will be affected. To set research and preservation priorities, the vulnerability of resources to climate change impacts and their importance to scientific research, preservation, and other resource values ne…
Fostering Collaborative Synthetic Research in Archaeology
While our fascination with understanding the past is sufficient to warrant an increased focus on synthesis, solutions to important problems facing modern society require understandings based on data that only archaeology can provide. Yet, even as we use public monies to collect ever-greater amounts of data, modes of research that can stimulate emergent understandings of human behavior have lagged behind. Consequently, a substantial amount of arch…
Cultural Heritage Management: Project Management
Connecting the Dots: Integrating Cultural and Natural Resource Management in the United States
Landholding agencies in the United States are under increasing pressure to integrate cultural and natural resource management approaches at a landscape level and to do so earlier and more comprehensively in planning processes. How to integrate management practices is poorly understood, however. An impediment to integration is that the laws, methods, and tools used in cultural and natural resource management differ significantly. Natural resource …
Forecast for the US CRM Industry and Job Market, 2022–2031
In the next 10 years, the US cultural resource management (CRM) industry will grow in terms of monies spent on CRM activities and the size of the CRM labor force. Between US fiscal years 2022 and 2031, annual spending on CRM will increase from about $1.46 to $1.85 billion, due in part to growth in the US economy but also to an added $1 billion of CRM activities conducted in response to the newly passed infrastructure bill. The increased spending …
What North American Archaeology Needs to Take Advantage of the Digital Data Revolution
Today, there is a growing movement to use accumulated archaeological information to contribute to discussions of general issues facing human societies, including our own. In this regard, the archaeological record is most unique and helpful when viewed at broad comparative scales. Most relevant data for these sorts of analyses are collected through the cultural resource management (CRM) process. Still, by and large, interpretation remains limited …
A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers
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