Table 4: LinkedIn Results for “Archaeology” Companies in the United States* State Companies California Pennsylvania
20 7
2 States (Alabama, Tennessee) 4 States (New York, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
6 5
7 States (Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Nevada, Texas) 6 States (Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, Washington) 15 States (Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia) 11 States (Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin) 4 States (Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C.) *Search conducted March 10th, 2014; results yielded company profiles with the term “archaeology”
4 3
2 1 0
Clearly, these results are inaccurate. The ACRA website indicates there are 28 CRM companies that do work in the state of Arizona alone (ACRA 2014). Another ACRA publication, written in 2013, states there are over 1,500 CRM companies in the United States. It appears that most companies that do archaeology do not have LinkedIn profiles. However, these data do roughly correlate with the individual profile data in that many of the states connected with a larger number of companies are also states with a large number of individual archaeologist profile connections. The same goes for the states with the fewest or no archaeology company connections.
Are career-related conversations taking place on LinkedIn groups? While LinkedIn members can send private messages to each other, most conversations about archaeology take place on archeologyrelated groups. These groups are intended to serve as a forum where information can be shared with group members who have the opportunity to comment. This is probably the main way archaeologists can network because LinkedIn usually only allows individuals to connect with each other if they have something in common, such as past work Blogging Archaeology
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