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19-3091.02 — Archeologists

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Tools

Augers
  • Bucket augers
Bench scales
Binoculars
Calipers
  • Dial calipers
  • Digital calipers
  • Vernier calipers
Cold chisels
Compressed air gun
  • Pneumatic airscribes
Conductivity meters
  • Conductance meters
  • Conductivity probes
Dental burs
Dental probes
  • Dental picks
Desktop computers
Digital camcorders or video cameras
  • Digital video cameras
Digital cameras
Diving instruments or accessories
  • Scuba diving equipment
Drying cabinets or ovens
  • Drying ovens
Electron microscopes
  • Electron microprobes
Floor or platform scales
  • Platform scales
Forestry increment borers
  • Tree ring sampling kits
Freeze dryers or lyopholizers
  • Vacuum freeze-drying chambers
Fume hoods or cupboards
  • Fume hoods
Geological compasses
  • Directional compasses
Global positioning system receivers
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
Goggles
  • Safety goggles
Hammers
  • Crack hammers
Heating or drying equipment or accessories
  • Drying racks
Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers
  • Inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopes ICP-ES
Laboratory balances
  • Laboratory precision balances
Laboratory beakers
  • Glass beakers
Laboratory burets
  • Glass burets
Laboratory scalpels
Laboratory separators
  • Water screening devices
Laboratory sifting equipment
  • Mesh sifting screens
  • Shaker screens
Land drilling rigs
  • Hydraulic drilling rigs
Levels
  • Digital levels
  • Laser line levels
Loupes
  • Pocket loupes
Magnetic stirrers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
Magnetometer geophysical instruments
  • Geophysical magnetometers
Mass spectrometers
  • Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopes ICP-MS
Measuring tables
  • Alidades
Metal detectors
Metallurgical microscopes
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Personal computers
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
  • Personal digital assistants PDA
Picks
  • Rock picks
Plotter printers
  • Plotting printers
Plumb bobs
Pneumatic hammer
  • Pneumatic chisels
Pneumatic sanding machines
  • Sandblasting equipment
Polarizing microscopes
  • Petrographic microscopes
Pullers
  • Slide hammers
Radarbased surveillance systems
  • Ground penetrating radar GPR
Resistivity geophysical instruments
  • Electrical resistivity instruments
Rulers
  • Precision rulers
Scanners
  • Flatbed scanners
  • Slide scanners
Scanning electron microscopes
Shovels
  • Flat-ended shovels
  • Round shovels
Soil core sampling apparatus
  • Soil probes
Soil testing kits
  • Soil sampling kits
Sonars
  • Side scan sonar equipment
Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
  • X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
Stereo or dissecting light microscopes
  • Stereo zoom microscopes
Still cameras
  • 35 millimeter cameras
Tablet computers
Tape measures
  • Lufkin tape measures
Theodolites
  • Total station transits
Triple beam balances
Trowels
  • Marshalltown trowels
  • Plains trowels
Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
  • Ultrasonic cleaning machines
Underwater cameras
  • Underwater digital cameras
  • Underwater still cameras
X ray diffraction equipment
  • X ray diffractometers

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • SPSS software
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Archeological Sites Management Information System ASMIS
  • Automated National Catalog System ANCS
  • Microsoft Access
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
  • Graphics software
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Map creation software
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Golden Software Surfer
  • Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
  • Trimble Pathfinder Office
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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