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