Description: Manage and oversee artifact cleaning, analysis, and curating.
Alternate Titles: Lab Director; small finds manager
Duties: Maintain oversight on all the artifacts that come into the laboratory; track their progress, seeing that they are properly cleaned and prepared for conservation, arrange for their analysis, prepare databases, and curate or arrange for curation
Locations: At cultural resource firm locations and universities throughout the world.
Job Type: Permanent, usually benefited; although there are laboratory supervisors who are hired for single projects.
Availability of Employment: Cultural resource firms, universities, other medium to large businesses.
Education Level Required: Usually some advanced education in museum studies or some archaeological training.
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