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