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Professional Archaeology

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There are many different settings and different areas that are available for archaeologists to work at. Some archaeologists are employed by universities, engineering firms, cultural resource management firms, museums, historic sites, and federal/state government agencies.
(saa.org) Archaeologists who work these jobs have very different job descriptions, however they’re all putting their archaeology skills to work. Some examples of their job descriptions include research on shipwrecks as an underwater archaeologist, identifying bones while on an archaeological site, creating digital maps of these archaeological sites, preserving artifacts as an archaeological lab director, and becoming a professor at a university to teach and train the …show more content…

Each archaeologists setting of work is different from the next. While professors will teach at universities; other archaeologists will find jobs in cultural resource management, in museums, and other areas. While a career in cultural resource management can quite easy to find, a job at universities or in museums can be quite difficult due to less demand in that area of work (saa.org). Archaeology can be split up into two different categories, academic archaeology and professional archaeology, also known as compliance archaeology. These two categories differ in many ways. Academic archaeology is very similar to public archaeology, which is the practice of presenting archaeological data to the public and interpreting that data to the public as well
(archaeology.about.com). Archaeologists who work in this area can normally be found in museums, historical societies, and professional archaeology associations. This is where academic and professional archaeology can overlap, working in a professional archaeology association.
Some cultural resource management firms also hire academic archaeologists, but they also hire professional archaeologists as well. These professional archaeologists have agreed to a

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