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