Archaeologist

Tasks and duties

• Locating suitable excavation sites using surveys and aerial photography.
• Examining, dating, interpreting and preserving artefacts.
• Using geographical information systems (GIS) and computer-aided design (CAD) to produce simulations of how artefacts and excavation sites might have looked in the past.
• Collecting and interpreting data.
• Keeping meticulous files of notes, photographs, drawings and electronic data.
• Writing up reports for publication and peer reviewing others’ reports.
• Assessing building applications when specialist review is required.