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TIOGA, NORTH DAKOTA—Archaeologists struggling to find jobs may have a surprising new place to look. According to the Great Falls Tribune, the oil boom in North Dakota has created an urgent need for professionals to fulfill the state’s requirements that the land be thoroughly surveyed and documented by trained archaeologists before oil drilling takes place. There are now more than 50 cultural resource management firms and several hundred archaeologists working in North Dakota looking for evidence of past human habitation in the region, which includes, among many types of sites, settler graveyards, Native American stone circles, and homesteader farms.
