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