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Thanks for all the input. My husband plans to start his own electrical business which is a hard thing to up and move. We also plan to have kids, which would have to happen in the next several years (probably while in grad school.) I'm not super young anymore! lol. So that would make it harder. I only wish I had pursued this a long time ago instead of going to law school (practiced almost four years now. Still don't like it so I know it's time to make a change.) I was afraid of having to do math back then so stayed away from all things science related.

Thanks! That was really helpful, but I think it supports the idea that most all of it deals with outside the US for obvious reasons. Maybe I need to get interested in Native American history and accept the fact that I won't be studying ancient Egypt

Yes I mainly mean outside the US and for longer periods of time.

This might be a silly question, but are there any subfields that do not require the student to do international travel during the program? I am interested in paleoanthropology specifically, but in the physical side generally. What kind of things can one do without travel? I would live to travel but recently got married and my husband would never be ok with me leaving Thanks for any input!

I don't have any advise to offer but am also a non-anthro background (currently a lawyer). I always wanted to be an archaeologist when I was younger but went the "practical" route and studied business then law (and hate it.) I plan to take all the intro courses this summer at a community college, then apply to a local MA program. Just from my online researach, I think this will help chances of later applying to Phd programs. One thing I have found (by actually calling phd programs at the UCs here) is that some of them will give you "credit" for your MA, or part of it, while others will essentially make you repeat whatever courses you took for the MA, because they expect you to obtain your MA on the way to the phd while in their program. That makes this a tough decision, because the MA can therefore set you back a couple of years, depending on which program you end up at. Overall, for me without a relevant background, I think this will be worth it.