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