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