What types of jobs are related to archaeology?

Answer 1

There are many types of jobs related to Archaeology.

Many of these are in museums, including curators, gallery guides, collections managers, and education and outreach officers.

Working in Cultural Resource Management (commercial archaeology) is probably the most common archaeological job. CRM firms are hired by corporations who are using federal funds and intend to build or break new ground are required by US law to have an archaeological excavation before doing any construction. There are CRM firms in all US states, and multiple firms in more populous states.

Becoming a professor and working in academia is another option for a career, which includes teaching students, while doing your own research and publishing your results.

The newest archaeological field is that of public archaeology, meaning something like public outreach. Public archaeologists run workshops, seminars, lectures, handling sessions, and other activities to involve the public in archaeology and to teach the public either about archaeology in general or specific projects that are occurring in a community or museum.

Conservation is another potential career opportunity.

Archaeologists are also employed by the National Park Service in the US, to oversee the preservation and conservation of the cultural heritage in a national park.

Archaeologists specializing in more data collection and analysis can find jobs in archaeology involving statistics, GIS, GPR, remote sensing, and other more technical aspects of the field.

We also have bone specialists - forensic archaeologists trained in examining human remains, and zooarchaeolgists trained in examining faunal remains.

The list is really endless, and since an education in archaeology can prepare a student for a multitude of careers not in archaeology itself (education, law, medicine, etc), the possibilities are endless.