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Actual digging can be taxing and tedious

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During the summers students get excavation experience

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"A Career In Archaeology"

It takes a long time to get everything needed and learned to be ready for a archaeologist

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Where ever you are located in the world there is their own department

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In the Afternoon the work consists of cleaning, studying, and writing about the artifacts they found

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A typical work day usually starts at 5 am just because of the weather

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Most of the dig sites are big, so it can take many seasons

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When they dig it depends on various factors like academic calendars, local weather conditions, and national holidays

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They go from the Arctic to tropical jungles to modern cities

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Pick-axes, they turn to smaller tools such as trowels, small picks, whisk brooms, dust pans, even toothbrushes and dental picks

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They break up dirt with pick-axes, shovel it into buckets and haul it off with wheelbarrows

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Digging can actually be both taxing and tedious

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Knowing the context of something can make all the difference in how we understand it

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Archaeology is first and basically manual labor

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23 Facts About Ancient Archaeological Discoveries

Archaeologists found a Hebrew Bible dating back to 408 B.C.

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23 Facts About Ancient Archaeological Discoveries

In 1886, Archaeologists found an unwrapped mummy

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23 Facts About Ancient Archaeological Discoveries

Claymation Attack where they found the Terracotta Army

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Archaeology: Facts

Helps the Archaeologists keep records of where they make each find

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Archaeology: Facts

Archaeologist dig organized, neat, square holes

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Archaeology: Facts

We rely on archaeologists to tell us things that aren't written down in books

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People have dug up monuments and artifacts but were not archaeologists, they were grave robbers and looters which are people who explore and find tombs and treasure to sell

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The word “archaeology” comes from the Greek word “arkhaios,” which means “ancient.”

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Many of the ancient civilizations had complex writing systems that archaeologists and linguists are still working on to decipher

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Most cultures with writing systems leave written records that archaeologists consult and study

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"Value of Archaeology"

Doing Archaeology and finding stuff from the past can still teach us and we can still learn from them

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"Value of Archaeology"

Archaeological sites are non-renewable resources; once they're destroyed or excavated by archaeologists, they're gone forever and can't be replaced

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Excavation of archaeological sites is a destructive process requiring systematic removal of soils and artifacts

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Archaeological sites are evidence of human activity often associated with concentrations of artifacts

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The thing that they are searching the most for is ways to better predict how cultures will change, including our own, and how to better plan for the future.

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"Value of Archaeology"

Archaeologists search for patterns in the evolution of significant cultural events such as the development of farming, the emergence of cities, or the collapse of major civilizations for clues of why these events occurred

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"Value of Archaeology"

The goal of archaeology is to understand how and why human behavior has changed over time

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"Value of Archaeology"

Archaeology is divided into prehistoric and historical archaeology

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"Value of Archaeology"

To understand more about the past and how we could learn and make a better civilization or just uncover mysteries of the world

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"Archaeologist Job Description"

Archaeology provides the skills for a wide variety of different types of jobs

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Organised training excavations and field schools can offer really good structured training programs and practical experience

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Accurate recording and reporting skills, including writing, drawing and photography skills, Presentation skills
Good IT skills, and team work

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producing, compiling and maintaining written, photographic and drawn records and electronic databases, collecting, analyzing and interpreting data

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computer applications such as computer-aided design and geographical information systems to record and interpret sites and findings, and to also produce simulations of how they might have looked in the past

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using a variety of methods to locate suitable excavation sites, including geophysical surveys and aerial photography, examining, documenting and preserving artifacts

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Archaeologists study human history by examining artifacts, which range from prehistoric tools and buildings to animal bones and tiny organisms