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O*NET detailed work activityConduct anthropological or archaeological research
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AI can get you up to speed fast and suggest where to look, but you need to confirm findings against real sources, records or people.
Part of Research historical or social issues, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 8 AI-assist, 1 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Study the economic, political, and cultural characteristics of a specific region's population.
- Analyze geographic distributions of physical and cultural phenomena on local, regional, continental, or global scales.
- Conduct ethnographic field research.
- Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
- Study objects and structures recovered by excavation to identify, date, and authenticate them and to interpret their significance.
- Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
- Compare findings from one site with archeological data from other sites to find similarities or differences.