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AI for Anthropologists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Study the origin, development, and behavior of human beings. May study the way of life, language, or physical characteristics of people in various parts of the world. May engage in systematic recovery and examination of material evidence, such as tools or pottery remaining from past human cultures, in order to determine the history, customs, and living habits of earlier civilizations.

Anthropologists and Archeologists · O*NET 19-3091.00 · Job Zone 5 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

21 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

41 matched to the tools anthropologists and archeologists use. Showing 24.

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The tools this job actually uses

58 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe Acrobathot
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  • Adobe InDesignhot
  • Adobe Photoshophot
  • Autodesk AutoCADhot
  • Chot
  • ESRI ArcGIS softwarehot
  • Facebookhot
  • IBM SPSS Statisticshot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
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  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
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  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • SAShot
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  • The MathWorks MATLABhot
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • Age progression software
  • Apple Final Cut Express
  • Apple iMovie
  • Applied Biosystems GeneMapper
  • Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS
  • Automated National Catalog System ANCS
  • Data visualization software
  • ESRI ArcGIS Survey 123
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  • GE Healthcare ImageQuant TL
  • Gene Codes Sequencher
  • Genealogy software
  • Geographic information system GIS software
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  • Golden Software Surfer
  • Graphics software

What this job involves

31 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents.
  2. Teach or mentor undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology or archeology.
  3. Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
  4. Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
  5. Record the exact locations and conditions of artifacts uncovered in diggings or surveys, using drawings and photographs as necessary.
  6. Create data records for use in describing and analyzing social patterns and processes, using photography, videography, and audio recordings.
  7. Assess archeological sites for resource management, development, or conservation purposes and recommend methods for site protection.
  8. Train others in the application of ethnographic research methods to solve problems in organizational effectiveness, communications, technology development, policy making, and program planning.
  9. Gather and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains to increase knowledge of ancient cultures.
  10. Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
  11. Apply traditional ecological knowledge and assessments of culturally distinctive land and resource management institutions to assist in the resolution of conflicts over habitat protection and resource enhancement.
  12. Compare findings from one site with archeological data from other sites to find similarities or differences.
  13. Lead field training sites and train field staff, students, and volunteers in excavation methods.
  14. Describe artifacts' physical properties or attributes, such as the materials from which artifacts are made and their size, shape, function, and decoration.
  15. Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.
  16. Conduct participatory action research in communities and organizations to assess how work is done and to design work systems, technologies, and environments.
  17. Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
  18. Study objects and structures recovered by excavation to identify, date, and authenticate them and to interpret their significance.
  19. Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
  20. Consult site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps to identify archeological sites.
  21. Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.
  22. Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.
  23. Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.
  24. Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts.
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