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