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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
- Director of Research Center
- Curator
- Associate Director
- Archaeologist
- Research Professor
- Principal Archaeologist
- Egyptologist
- Director and Professor
- Director
Tasks for “Principal Archaeologist”
- Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods.
- Assess archeological sites for resource management, development, or conservation purposes and recommend methods for site protection.
- Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
- Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
- Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
- Teach archeology at colleges and universities.
- Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
- Present findings from archeological research to peers and the general public.
- Create a grid of each site and draw and update maps of unit profiles, stratum surfaces, features, and findings.
- Create artifact typologies to organize and make sense of past material cultures.
- 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.
- 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.
- Compare findings from one site with archeological data from other sites to find similarities or differences.
- Write, present, and publish reports that record site history, methodology, and artifact analysis results, along with recommendations for conserving and interpreting findings.
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- Platform scales
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- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopes ICP-ES
- Conductivity probes
- Water screening devices
- Underwater digital cameras
- Alidades
- Laboratory precision balances
- Dental picks
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- Fume hoods
- Bucket augers
- Shaker screens
- Total stations
- Soil probes
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- Plains trowels
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- Drying racks
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- Laptop computers
- Ground penetrating radar GPR
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- Pocket loupes
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- Side scan sonars
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Dial calipers
- Pneumatic chisels
- Digital levels
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- Desktop computers
- Vernier calipers
- Theodolites
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Drying ovens
- Slide hammers
- Sandblasters
- Petrographic microscopes
- Round point shovels
- Tree ring sampling kits
- Digital cameras
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- Directional compasses
- Pneumatic airscribes
- Flatbed scanners
- Vacuum freeze-drying chambers
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- Polarizing microscopes
- Metallurgical microscopes
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- Digital calipers
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopes ICP-MS
- Dental burs
- Tablet computers
- Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS
- Web browser software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- SPSS
- ESRI ArcInfo
- Graphics software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
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