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Job Description
Conduct research to reconstruct record of past human life and culture from human remains, artifacts, architectural features, and structures recovered through excavation, underwater recovery, or other means of discovery.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-3091.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Archeologists”.
Also Known As…
- Archeologists
- Research Archaeologist
- Project Director
- Principal Archaeologist
- Director of Research Center
- Curator
- Archaeologist
- Research Professor
- Egyptologist
- Director and Professor
- Director
- Associate Director
Tasks for “Associate Director”
- Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods.
- Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
- Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
- Write, present, and publish reports that record site history, methodology, and artifact analysis results, along with recommendations for conserving and interpreting findings.
- Assess archeological sites for resource management, development, or conservation purposes and recommend methods for site protection.
- Present findings from archeological research to peers and the general public.
- Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
- Record the exact locations and conditions of artifacts uncovered in diggings or surveys, using drawings and photographs as necessary.
- Teach archeology at colleges and universities.
- Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
- Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
- Study objects and structures recovered by excavation to identify, date, and authenticate them and to interpret their significance.
- Describe artifacts' physical properties or attributes, such as the materials from which artifacts are made and their size, shape, function, and decoration.
- Compare findings from one site with archeological data from other sites to find similarities or differences.
- Create artifact typologies to organize and make sense of past material cultures.
- Create a grid of each site and draw and update maps of unit profiles, stratum surfaces, features, and findings.
Related Technology & Tools
- Underwater digital cameras
- Pneumatic airscribes
- Binoculars
- Conductivity probes
- Vernier calipers
- Crack hammers
- Tree ring sampling kits
- Underwater still cameras
- Slide scanners
- Plotters
- Stereo zoom microscopes
- Dental burs
- Ground penetrating radar GPR
- Tablet computers
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopes ICP-MS
- Rock picks
- Bench scales
- Drying ovens
- Plains trowels
- Desktop computers
- X ray diffractometers
- Ultrasonic cleaning machines
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Polarizing microscopes
- Laser line levels
- Side scan sonars
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Laboratory scalpels
- Hydraulic drilling rigs
- Round point shovels
- Flatbed scanners
- Safety goggles
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Pneumatic chisels
- Petrographic microscopes
- Triple beam balances
- Digital levels
- Directional compasses
- Digital video cameras
- Theodolites
- Soil samplers
- Precision rulers
- Vacuum freeze-drying chambers
- Plumb bobs
- 35 millimeter cameras
- Lufkin tape measures
- Sandblasters
- Conductance meters
- Flat-ended shovels
- Water screening devices
- Alidades
- Digital calipers
- Fume hoods
- Geophysical magnetometers
- Laboratory precision balances
- Shaker screens
- Dental picks
- Dial calipers
- Cold chisels
- Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopes ICP-ES
- Scuba diving equipment
- Marshalltown trowels
- Glass burets
- Electron microprobes
- Mesh sifting screens
- Laptop computers
- Magnetic stirring bars
- Total stations
- Platform scales
- Metallurgical microscopes
- Soil probes
- Pocket loupes
- Slide hammers
- Metal detectors
- Drying racks
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Bucket augers
- Glass beakers
- Digital cameras
- Electrical resistivity instruments
- Microsoft Access
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Automated National Catalog System ANCS
- Golden Software Surfer
- Microsoft Excel
- ESRI ArcView
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- ESRI ArcInfo
- Microsoft Outlook
- Web browser software
- Graphics software
- SPSS
- Microsoft Word
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Trimble Pathfinder Office
- Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat