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