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