If Bill Adams can deign to write an introduction, I guess I can too. My name is Tom Wheaton, and I am an ex-Peace Corps Volunteer and vice president of New South Associates, a consulting firm conducting all phases of cultural resource projects in the southeast and Caribbean. We have offices in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. We pride ourselves on being more research oriented than the normal CRM firm. Rather than a strict hierarchy with one overbearing person in charge (the norm in the southeast), we are a community of peers who are expected to find, win, conduct and be responsible for projects without interference from the rest of the firm. My speciality (after receiving my master's in mesoamerican archaeology) is historical archaeology with an emphasis on plantation studies, African-American archaeology, urban archaeology, early industrial archaeology, the management of large databases and the illustration of archaeological data using micro computers. I am also editor of the African-American Archaeology Newsletter and am responsible for the recent thread on whether non-African Americans can and should study African-American sites. I am also the liaison between SHA and the African-American Archaeology network. For relaxation (?) I am active in Habitat for Humanity, and recommend that everyone volunteer in the community. It helps to make up for the totally useless career we have.