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