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