How do they match: Anthropologists and Archeologists

  • Applied Cultural Anthropologist

  • 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.

  • Advise government agencies, private organizations, and communities regarding proposed programs, plans, and policies and their potential impacts on cultural institutions, organizations, and communities.
  • 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.
  • Collaborate with economic development planners to decide on the implementation of proposed development policies, plans, and programs based on culturally institutionalized barriers and facilitating circumstances.
  • Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
  • Enhance the cultural sensitivity of elementary and secondary curricula and classroom interactions in collaboration with educators and teachers.
  • Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.
  • Gather and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains to increase knowledge of ancient cultures.
  • 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.
  • Organize public exhibits and displays to promote public awareness of diverse and distinctive cultural traditions.
  • 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.
  • Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
  • Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.