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