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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 “Principal Archaeologist”
- 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.
- Assess archeological sites for resource management, development, or conservation purposes and recommend methods for site protection.
- Create a grid of each site and draw and update maps of unit profiles, stratum surfaces, features, and findings.
- 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.
- Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
- Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Teach archeology at colleges and universities.
- Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
- Create artifact typologies to organize and make sense of past material cultures.
- Compare findings from one site with archeological data from other sites to find similarities or differences.
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- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Soil samplers
- Flat-ended shovels
- Laboratory scalpels
- Dental burs
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Polarizing microscopes
- Pneumatic chisels
- 35 millimeter cameras
- Alidades
- Precision rulers
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- Water screening devices
- Ground penetrating radar GPR
- Plumb bobs
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Glass beakers
- Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopes ICP-ES
- Sandblasters
- Plains trowels
- Crack hammers
- Underwater still cameras
- Lufkin tape measures
- Platform scales
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- Binoculars
- Digital levels
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- Vernier calipers
- Drying ovens
- Slide hammers
- Metallurgical microscopes
- Vacuum freeze-drying chambers
- Total stations
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- Scuba diving equipment
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- Digital video cameras
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- Conductivity probes
- Petrographic microscopes
- Slide scanners
- Metal detectors
- Tree ring sampling kits
- Rock picks
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopes ICP-MS
- Tablet computers
- Underwater digital cameras
- Bucket augers
- Safety goggles
- Glass burets
- Personal computers
- Desktop computers
- Drying racks
- Cold chisels
- Marshalltown trowels
- Electron microprobes
- Laptop computers
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- X ray diffractometers
- Digital cameras
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- Bench scales
- Flatbed scanners
- Mesh sifting screens
- Dental picks
- Laboratory precision balances
- Triple beam balances
- Fume hoods
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- Dial calipers
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- Stereo zoom microscopes
- Soil probes
- Hydraulic drilling rigs
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Trimble Pathfinder Office
- ESRI ArcView
- Microsoft Access
- SPSS
- Microsoft Outlook
- Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS
- Golden Software Surfer
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
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- Automated National Catalog System ANCS
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Graphics software