The Science in Small Business: A Small Business's Process and Problems with Archeological Science Techniques

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science Outside the Ivory Tower: Perspectives from CRM" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Quality Services, Inc. is a small business in Rapid City, SD. Since 2013, we have added GPR, terrestrial LiDAR, 3D scanning and drone photography to our services, but have not had success in using them on a consistent basis. Three obstacles are present: skilled employee retention, convincing clients of the benefits and competition for low cost services that include these methods.

Recent projects for the City of Deadwood have shown the importance of using multiple types of archeological sciences to both preserve artifacts and add to the greater body of knowledge. While QSI has offered both GPR and LiDAR, the City has remained committed to what has worked in the past: construction monitoring.

To promote these techniques in our region, we encourage employee presentations and articles to showcase potential for clients. QSI also volunteers services for local non-profits, again to promote the capabilities of both the technology and our company.

Overall, CRM projects that incorporate archeological sciences should be shared and published more in order to highlight both the need and benefit to clients. However, until regulatory agencies begin to acknowledge the science as an integral part of the process it’s unlikely to become commonplace.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Archaeological Science Outside the Ivory Tower: Perspectives from CRM

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Abstract Id(s): 24113