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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
Tasks for “Director and Professor”
- Create a grid of each site and draw and update maps of unit profiles, stratum surfaces, features, and findings.
- Create artifact typologies to organize and make sense of past material cultures.
- Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
- 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.
- Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
- 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.
- Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
- Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Digital calipers
- Electron microprobes
- Safety goggles
- Round point shovels
- Vacuum freeze-drying chambers
- Laser line levels
- Scuba diving equipment
- Petrographic microscopes
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Glass burets
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Rock picks
- Pocket loupes
- Total stations
- Metal detectors
- Plotters
- Ground penetrating radar GPR
- Soil probes
- Tablet computers
- Drying ovens
- Slide scanners
- Electrical resistivity instruments
- Personal computers
- Soil samplers
- Dental picks
- Hydraulic drilling rigs
- Sandblasters
- Digital levels
- Binoculars
- Crack hammers
- Pneumatic chisels
- Fume hoods
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Side scan sonars
- Mesh sifting screens
- Shaker screens
- Tree ring sampling kits
- Polarizing microscopes
- Dial calipers
- Drying racks
- Lufkin tape measures
- Glass beakers
- Directional compasses
- Platform scales
- Flat-ended shovels
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras
- Underwater still cameras
- Pneumatic airscribes
- Digital video cameras
- Triple beam balances
- Bucket augers
- Marshalltown trowels
- Dental burs
- 35 millimeter cameras
- Plumb bobs
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Slide hammers
- Laboratory scalpels
- Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopes ICP-ES
- Cold chisels
- Ultrasonic cleaning machines
- Bench scales
- Laboratory precision balances
- Metallurgical microscopes
- Plains trowels
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopes ICP-MS
- Theodolites
- X ray diffractometers
- Conductivity probes
- Laptop computers
- Magnetic stirring bars
- Precision rulers
- Alidades
- Geophysical magnetometers
- Flatbed scanners
- Conductance meters
- Vernier calipers
- Underwater digital cameras
- Stereo zoom microscopes
- Water screening devices
- Golden Software Surfer
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Web browser software
- Automated National Catalog System ANCS
- Graphics software
- ESRI ArcInfo
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- SPSS
- Trimble Pathfinder Office
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- ESRI ArcView
- Microsoft Office
- Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS