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By: A. Davis
Becoming an archaeologist is not easy, but at the end of it all you will have a rewarding job that takes you all over the world in search of the past.
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By: D. Admin
Archaeologists are specialists, they are trained experts in the treatment and handling of archaeological materials in their particular field. They take great care in excavating, mapping, drawing, photographing, and documenting in writing all aspects of their excavations. Archaeological interpretation requires the archaeologist to have an understanding of past climatic and environmental factors that will have influenced the lives and activities of the people they are studying. To do this, samples of soils and sediments, animal and plant remains, charcoal and other organic materials are recovered during the course of excavations for analysis later. Materials recovered during legitimate archaeological research are catalogued and maintained in a repository like in a museum or research facility accessions lab or storage facility.
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