Also called: Curation Technician
Cleans, sorts, catalogs, and stores artifacts after excavation.
Washes pottery fragments, labels each with tiny ink numbers, enters them into a database, and packs them in archival boxes.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in anthropology.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Anthropology.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). Estimate.
Medium risk for 10 years. Digital imaging and AI cataloging speed records; washing, labeling and packing artifacts stay hands-on.
Classes: AP World History, Chemistry, Computer applications.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-4013.
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