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Archaeologist
* DON'T dig up dinosaurs, palaeontologists dig up dinosaurs.
* Many archaeologists also are anthropologists
  - look to modern Native peoples to determine the importance of birds
* Many archaeologists work for academia as researchers
  - the federal government
* Most archaeologists do begin work at an academic level to gain practical experience.
* Some archaeologists believe that mummification occurred through a natural drying process
  - specialize in marine archaeology, most often exploring sunken ships
  - study things that are now underwater
  - suggest that early societies employed baskets extensively
* Some archaeologists work in cultural resource management
* also concern themselves with literate societies of the past
  - dig in layers that relate to each level of human occupation or activity
  - seek the origins of humans' capacity for creativity and symbolic expression
  - try to put pieces of artifacts together like a puzzle
  - use larger tools, like shovels and even backhoes, to move great amounts of dirt
* apply scientific methods by formulating plans to gather and analyze data.
* are anthropologists, after all.
* are concerned only with the material remains left by human communities
  - with understanding societies that existed in the past
* are interested in discovering a bygone people's culture, technology, and behavior
  - much older artifacts, from the prehistoric or historic past
  - painting a picture of our past by examining what was left behind
* are interested in the human story through a study of the things they left behind
  - people who like to travel and work outside
  - perhaps one of the more popular types of anthropologists in the eye of the media
  - scientists who study people and cultures
  - subgroup of anthropologists who excavate the material remains of man in the past
  - the people that study archaeology
* believe that corn traveled north from Mesoamerica, where it was first domesticated.
* can work for a wide variety of employers.
* classify artifacts in order to answer specific research questions.
* collect and study artifacts to find out about life in the past.
* develop maps.
* dig up the bones of one of the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived.
* discover evidence.
* divide time into periods in order to make it easier to understand.
* examine ancient sites and objects to learn about the past.
* explore the past and examine the ice age, tools, spear points, and human adaptation.
* fall within the larger occupational category of social scientists.
* find depictions
  - skeletons
* gather information by excavating artifacts and features left by past cultures.
* generally try to estimate the age by cross dating with other styles or artifacts.
* get dirt
  - to know the types of soil and how it clings to pottery or bone
* identify stages.
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - human bodies
  - legs
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* investigate and report about the events occurred in a particular period in history.
* investigate the behavior of past human cultures
  - past by digging in the ground to see what they can find
* is an anthropologist
  - the professional body for UK archaeologists
* like to deal with artifacts in situ , that is, in place.
* look at stratigraphy - the layers of soils and deposits in a site.
* love making new and useful excavating tools from everyday objects.
* mark off squares to keep track of where they are digging.
* measure time differently than Bible scholars.
* often dig trenches to reveal layers of earth
  - focus their investigations on a single site
  - obtain information from aerial photographs
  - reach conclusions based on small amounts of information gathered at a site
* produce patterns
  - skeletal patterns
* reconstruct past human lifeways through the study of cultural artifacts.
* recover, preserve, and study artifacts from past human cultures.
* rely on measuring tapes and notebooks under water just as on land.
* search for clues to how earlier cultures developed, lived, and died.
* sometimes work with museums, both pubic and private.
* speculate that they served as calendars in ancient times.
* spend all of their time digging
  - their lives dedicated to the scientific research of excavation
* still dig with spades, their hands and sometimes even with toothbrushes.
* study historic cultures as well as prehistoric.
* study human cultures from around the world and throughout time
  - groups, both past and present, by looking at their material culture
  - material culture of the past
* study past cultures and lifeways
  - peoples and their ways of life
  - people of the past through the things they left behind
* study the artifacts of past cultures
  - human past through the material remains left by ancient cultures
  - material remains of past societies
  - relationship between human cultural adaptation and the environment
* tell stories of ordinary people.
* tend to classify or type artifacts and features.
* think in terms of artifacts and features.
* to identify sites
  - study cities
* track down places where ancient civilizations lived.
* typically study prehistory by reconstructing a society based on remains.
* use a variety of tools to excavate a site
  - age to indicate periods of time according to cultural progress
  - all kinds of tools
  - artefacts and stratigraphic evidence, whilst historians use documents
  - artifacts like puzzle pieces, each one tells part of the story of a past culture
  - computers all the time just as scientists do in other fields of research
  - sheets of mylar underwater for paper
* use the scientific method
  - study of modern social groups to help interpret their artifact assemblages
  - word to refer to a way of life prior to the widespread use of pottery
  - tools to dig in the ground and recover clues about the past
  - trowels to excavate features
  - various terms to describe their finds
* wish to understand how complex societies arose.
* work in any area that has been inhabited by humans
  - within the framework of archaeological legislation
+ Archaeology, Fields of interest
  * Archaeologists do not all study the same civilizations, they specialize in different areas of interest. Archaeologists study every civilization that is known, especially the ones where there is no written history. They can study any time period. Some archaeologists study things that are now underwater. They search for sunken ships or cities that have been lost under the sea.
+ Pre-history: Periods and ages in history
  * Some important sciences that are used to find out more about pre-history are palaeontology, astronomy, biology, geology, anthropology, and archaeology. Archaeologists study things left over from prehistory to try to understand what was happening. Anthropologists study the traces of human behavior to learn what people where doing and why.