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SOC 19-3091
Anthropologists and archeologists correspond to US 19-3091.00. They study human origins, behavior, culture, and material remains, producing research reports, papers, and public explanations through observation, interviews, documentary or physical-material analysis. ONET lists 30 tasks (20 core/10 supplemental), including teaching, exhibitions, archival research, artifact cleaning and restoration, and forensic collaboration; a position need not perform all of them. Archeological professionals (2-10-08-01) in China's 2022 occupational classification catalogue conduct surveys, exploration, excavation, processing, assessment, and research, covering only part of the combined US occupation. BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, growth of 6.0% over 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 annual average job openings, and 8.9% self-employed. Openings include replacement needs and do not equal net new jobs or an individual's chance of being hired; US projections are not extrapolated to China.
Model impact index for three equally weighted representative core tasks; not a measured share of working time or a job-loss probability. floor((50+0+75)/3+0.5)=42; fermatmind-ai-impact-v1; 2026-10-18.
In one sentence: professional research positions studying human behavior and culture, producing reviewable conclusions through field surveys, excavation, material processing, and analysis; outputs include research reports, papers, excavation documentation, and public interpretation.
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no precise nationwide/city-specific Chinese wages, national employment projections, or project-employed/freelancer shares for this occupation. NBS2025 industry/occupational categories are only broad references and exclude individual businesses and freelancers; whether project employment is covered depends on legal-entity employer and wage-statistics conditions, and cannot be universally excluded. US May2025 median annual wage 70,770 dollars and hourly wage 34.02 dollars. BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, growth of 6.0% over 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 annual average job openings, and 8.9% self-employed. Openings include replacement needs and do not equal net new jobs or an individual's chance of being hired; US projections are not extrapolated to China.
Anthropologists and archeologists correspond to US 19-3091.00. They study human origins, behavior, culture, and material remains, producing research reports, papers, and public explanations through observation, interviews, documentary or physical-material analysis. ONET lists 30 tasks (20 core/10 supplemental), including teaching, exhibitions, archival research, artifact cleaning and restoration, and forensic collaboration; a position need not perform all of them. Archeological professionals (2-10-08-01) in China's 2022 occupational classification catalogue conduct surveys, exploration, excavation, processing, assessment, and research, covering only part of the combined US occupation. China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own.
Career direction comparison
The table below compares three directions within this occupation and three adjacent occupations using consistent dimensions: direction, core work and outputs, key differences, and which choices they better suit.
| Career direction | Core work and output | Key differences | Best-fit choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural anthropology and ethnographic research direction | Design ethnographic research, conduct participant observation, interviews, and focus groups, create image and audio records, and write and publish research on culture and social institutions. | Emphasizes interviews and observation in communities and living populations; verify applicable ethics, consent, and information-handling requirements without comparing strictness. | People willing to enter communities and maintain detailed interview and observation records over the long term. |
| Archeological survey and excavation direction |
AI impact on this career
Editorial tool scenarios: explore literature retrieval, record organization, initial image screening, and statistical/GIS assistance, but verify specific system capabilities, material permissions, and the basis of outputs. Insufficient evidence: this round checked ONET/BLS but obtained no occupation-specific AI adoption rate, task-level comparative effects, causal effects on wages/employment, or disappearance year; task lists, software examples, and employment projections do not prove replacement or permanent irreplaceability. BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, growth of 6.0% over 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 annual average job openings, and 8.9% self-employed. Openings include replacement needs and do not equal net new jobs or an individual's chance of being hired; US projections are not extrapolated to China. Specific research example: the PNAS2024 Nasca paper reports discovering 303 new figurative geoglyphs in Peru's Nasca region using AI image screening with 6 months of field surveys. The original includes field confirmation; not all 303 were independently confirmed by AI. The region, image subjects, and research design do not represent occupation-wide adoption, artifact-identification effects, or causal effects on wages or employment. AI Impact Score 42% is an editorial estimate. Model impact index for three equally weighted representative core tasks; not a measured share of working time or a job-loss probability. floor((50+0+75)/3+0.5)=42; fermatmind-ai-impact-v1; 2026-10-18.The three tasks, ratings and sources are listed in the FermatMind method source record on this page.
FermatMind AI Impact Score estimation method v1
FermatMind / 费马测试 · 2026-10-18
Chinese mainland salary reference
Archeological professionals 2-10-08-01 in the 2022 occupational classification catalogue cover surveys, exploration, excavation, processing, assessment, and research, and cannot equal all US anthropological directions. NBS tables report by industry/employer/occupational category; occupational names do not automatically assign institutions to industries.
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no precise nationwide/city-specific Chinese wages, national employment projections, or project-employed/freelancer shares for this occupation. NBS2025 industry/occupational categories are only broad references and exclude individual businesses and freelancers; whether project employment is covered depends on legal-entity employer and wage-statistics conditions, and cannot be universally excluded.
Insufficient evidence: no nationwide or city-specific wage distribution obtained for the precise occupation Anthropologists and Archeologists
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no precise wages for this occupation; the 2025 annual average CNY 182,064 in non-private employers in scientific research and technical services is only a broad reference.
US wage reference
National median USD 70770/P10 at 49050/P90 at 108060 are distribution positions, not starting pay. Check specific work direction, location, contracts, and hours separately; percentiles do not establish wage causes.
| Position in wage statistics | Annual wage reference | Conversion boundaries | How to interpret this position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom 10% | 49,050 dollars/year (23.58 dollars/hour) | Official annual wages, not an individual's monthly income | ONET states that the lowest 10% have annual wages of USD 49050 or less; a distribution position that does not imply newcomers, assistants, or non-tenured staff composition. |
| Median (50%) | 70,770 dollars/year (median; 34.02 dollars/hour) | Official annual wages, not an individual's take-home pay |
Career fit guide
Editorial self-checks cover information collection, checks, truthful retention of unknowns, and sustained writing. US ONET respondents' 11% weekly but not daily outdoor weather exposure, 50% irregular schedules, 70% workweeks over 40 hours, and 26% extreme/32% high competition are work background, not proof of slow outputs, uncertainty, or individual suitability. IA describes work interests only.
You may be better suited if： Editorial self-checks cover information collection, checks, truthful retention of unknowns, and sustained writing. US ONET respondents' 11% weekly but not daily outdoor weather exposure, 50% irregular schedules, 70% workweeks over 40 hours, and 26% extreme/32% high competition are work background, not proof of slow outputs, uncertainty, or individual suitability. IA describes work interests only.
These situations require caution： Situations requiring care: difficulty accepting conclusions that cannot be verified quickly and extended periods without immediate feedback, discomfort with fieldwork intensity and irregular schedules, unwillingness to follow standards for stratigraphic, coordinate, and physical-object records, lack of respect for site and cultural relic compliance and ethical requirements, or lack of psychological preparation for funding and publication competition.
Try an entry exercise： Editorial paper exercise: use the complete fictional survey summary A, excavation-unit record B, and public email C below to propose further documentary checks, identify missing records, and write a public reply. All coordinates use a fictional local metric grid, not real geographical locations; do not collect materials, conduct test excavations or interviews, or handle physical objects. The work samples do not prove practice or hiring.
Work pressures, risks, and professional boundaries
Four categories of advance editorial checks: excavation qualifications/approval and cultural relic management, material records/conclusion grounds, field conditions/safety training, and permissions for participants/remains/unpublished materials. Check direction-specific procedures separately; this round provides no incident rates, medical causation, causal magnitudes of illicit excavation, or uniform ethical procedures.
US ONET respondent hours, schedules, outdoor work, accuracy, and error consequences provide work background, not incident rates. OOH supports field travel, weather, and intensity; Articles 41/42/43/48 of China's Cultural Relics Protection Law support excavation approval, organizational qualifications, and record transfer. Other scenarios/consequences/responses are editorial summaries, without incident rates or penalty amounts.
Typical scenario：Excavating without approval or beyond approved scope, or failing to register and transfer excavated cultural relics as required.
Roles most affected：Archeological survey and excavation positions
Entry, qualifications, and career development
US OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical for entry, with some positions requiring a doctorate; a bachelor's degree plus relevant experience may lead to field/laboratory technician or research-assistant entry positions. Respondents to ONET's new-hire education question answered doctorate 40%, master's 30%, bachelor's 20%; these are not practitioners' educational composition. Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above is a US preparation reference, not a uniform Chinese threshold. China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own.
Career prospects and switches to related occupations
BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, with 6.0% growth in 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 average annual openings, and 8.9% self-employment. Openings include replacement demand and are not equivalent to net new jobs or an individual's chances of being hired; US projections must not be extrapolated to China. US OOH describes typical entry as requiring at least a master's degree, with some roles requiring a doctorate; a bachelor's degree plus relevant experience may provide a starting point as a field/laboratory technician or research assistant. For ONET's education question about new hires, 40% of respondents answered doctorate, 30% master's, and 20% bachelor's; this is not the educational composition of the workforce. Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above are US preparation references, not a uniform Chinese threshold. Insufficient evidence: this round did not obtain precise national/by-city wages for this occupation in China, national employment projections, or shares of project-based employment or freelance work. NBS2025 industry/occupational categories are only broad references and do not cover individual businesses or freelancers; coverage of project-based employees depends on legal entity and wage statistics conditions, so they cannot all be excluded. Moving into sociology, history, curation, surveys, geography, research support, or teaching requires checking actual methods, education, and authorization; a direct career switch is not promised.
Anthropologists and Archeologists corresponds to US 19-3091.00. They study human origins, behavior, culture, and material remains, producing research reports, papers, and public explanations through observation, interviews, documentary research, or analysis of physical materials. ONET lists 30 tasks (20 core/10 supplemental), including teaching, exhibitions, archival research, cleaning and restoring finds, and forensic collaboration; a role need not perform all of them. Archeological professionals (2-10-08-01) in China's 2022 Occupational Classification Encyclopedia correspond to surveys, prospecting, excavation, organization of materials, assessment, and research, covering only part of the combined US occupation.
Adjacent occupations differ in their main objects and outputs, though tasks may overlap. ONET includes exhibitions, preservation and restoration, archival research, and teaching; these cannot be listed as prohibited activities. Verify Chinese approval, excavation, cultural relic management, and specialized treatment authority separately.
Choose a real task from this page for a small practice project or a conversation with someone in the field. Use the planning guides to set a date, an output and feedback questions before deciding whether to continue.
People more likely to adapt: those willing to perform detailed information collection, organization, and checking over the long term, remain patient and follow standards in field conditions (outdoors and exposed to weather, with extended recording and mapping), accept highly uncertain research conclusions and truthfully explain material limitations, handle sites, cultural relics, and research-participant information under legal and ethical requirements, and sustain long research-output cycles (papers and reports take time, and funding competition is intense). Risks are usually greater for those unable to tolerate a combination of extended desk work and fieldwork, accept conclusions that cannot be verified quickly, follow standards for stratigraphic and coordinate records, or respect cultural relic and site compliance and ethical requirements.
Anthropologists and archeologists correspond to US 19-3091.00. They study human origins, behavior, culture, and material remains, producing research reports, papers, and public explanations through observation, interviews, documentary or physical-material analysis. ONET lists 30 tasks (20 core/10 supplemental), including teaching, exhibitions, archival research, artifact cleaning and restoration, and forensic collaboration; a position need not perform all of them. Archeological professionals (2-10-08-01) in China's 2022 occupational classification catalogue conduct surveys, exploration, excavation, processing, assessment, and research, covering only part of the combined US occupation. China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own.
Editorial paper exercise: use the complete fictional survey summary A, excavation-unit record B, and public email C below to propose further documentary checks, identify missing records, and write a public reply. All coordinates use a fictional local metric grid, not real geographical locations; do not collect materials, conduct test excavations or interviews, or handle physical objects. The work samples do not prove practice or hiring.
Anthropologists' and archeologists' work falls into four categories: research design and information collection (formulating research questions, planning and directing research, collecting information through observation, interviews, and document review, identifying sites through site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps, and studying archival collections); field surveys and excavation (conducting archeological surveys and exploration, laying out excavation units and clearing deposits and features under procedures, recovering artifacts and specimens, recording artifacts' exact locations and condition through drawings, photography, and three-dimensional scanning, and collecting stone, bone, metal, and other artifacts and marking their excavation locations); processing, analysis, and conservation (cleaning, restoring, and preserving artifacts, describing their materials, dimensions, shape, function, and decoration, collecting and analyzing artifacts and skeletal remains, comparing archeological data across sites, dating and identifying remains, assessing sites, and recommending protection); publication and collaboration (writing and presenting research findings, writing grant applications, teaching undergraduate and graduate students, advising governments and organizations on cultural impacts, organizing public exhibitions, and collaborating with medical, public-health, and education personnel, police, and pathologists).
Cultural research may use observation and interviews, archeology may examine records of remains, biological/forensic work may analyze bones, and applied research may advise institutions; directions can overlap. Verify actual responsibilities and authority against positions.
Check research, project, approval, safekeeping, and exhibition responsibilities against specific tasks and jurisdictions. ONET includes exhibitions, archival research, and cleaning/restoration; occupational tasks may overlap. Research conclusions do not confer administrative approval authority; verify excavation qualifications, plans, and cultural relic safekeeping separately against law.
| Dimension | Primary track | Comparison track |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Address research and humanities deliverables by asking what the research questions and materials are, whether methods and records can be reviewed, whether the basis and uncertainty of conclusions are stated, and whether compliance and ethical requirements are met. | Within the scope of responsibility, complete research design, information collection and fieldwork, processing and analysis, and deliver reviewable research outputs and archival materials. |
| Main objects and evidence | The subjects are human behavior, culture, and their material remains; the bases are archeological and anthropological theories and methods (stratigraphy, typology, field procedures), cultural relic protection law, professional conduct and ethical standards, institutional academic standards, and research participants' informed-consent and privacy requirements. | Compare primary subjects and outputs without universally excluding teaching, exhibitions, restoration, archives, or material processing; ONET explicitly includes these tasks. Verify specific professional treatment and approval authority separately. |
Formulate and plan research questions, collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and document review, identify sites through site reports, existing artifacts, and topographic maps, and study archival collections to explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.
Conduct archeological surveys and exploration. Clearing deposits and recovering artifacts and specimens requires specific training, project approval, and organizational procedures; this page does not confer operational ability. Record artifacts' exact locations and condition through drawings and photography (verify specific three-dimensional equipment separately), collect cultural relics, and mark their excavation locations.
Clean, restore, and preserve artifacts, describe their materials, dimensions, shape, function, and decoration, collect and analyze artifacts and skeletal remains, compare archeological data across sites, identify and date remains, and interpret their significance.
Assess archeological sites for resource management, development, or protection, and recommend site protection methods. Under China's Article 43, provincial cultural relics authorities and construction organizations jointly agree on protection measures; verify individual collaboration duties against the project.
Write and present research findings for professional and public audiences, write grant applications to obtain research funding, teach or supervise undergraduate and graduate students, and organize public exhibitions to promote understanding of cultural traditions.
Advise government agencies and private organizations on cultural impacts of projects and policies, collaborate with medical, public-health, and education personnel, and work with police departments and pathologists on forensic activities such as dental and skeletal structure identification. Chinese excavation requires legal approval; verify other ethical procedures separately against actual directions and jurisdictions.
Editorial questions before joining: research direction and actual tasks, training/recruitment conditions, training and recording skills, organizational and project authority, contracts and field arrangements, material and ethical procedures. Among US ONET respondents, 70% work more than 40 hours weekly and 50% have irregular schedules; these are US contexts, not Chinese employment shares or individual tolerance tests.
Look at work direction and organization type, rather than job titles.
Qualifications and education requirements determine whether one can lead or participate in projects.
| Conduct archeological surveys, exploration, and excavation, record feature relationships and artifact coordinates layer by layer, collect and register cultural relics, process materials, and write excavation reports. |
| Emphasizes site and physical-object records; Chinese excavation follows organizational qualifications and approved plans, without claiming the strictest compliance requirements. |
| People able to sustain fieldwork and strictly follow procedures for stratigraphic and coordinate records. |
| Biological and forensic anthropology direction | Study human skeletal and other materials, participating in identification or forensic collaboration according to professional abilities and institutional procedures; research experience does not automatically confer forensic examination authority. | Emphasizes observation and analysis of human materials, with possible collaboration with forensic and other professionals; verify specific authority and tasks with institutions, without ranking laboratory-work shares. | People who prefer precise laboratory measurement and identification and accept collaboration and procedural constraints. |
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| Sociologists (adjacent occupation) | Design social surveys, analyze social stratification, organizations, and institutions, and form policy-related research conclusions. | Sociology emphasizes social relations, institutions, and organizations, using quantitative or qualitative methods; it overlaps with anthropology. Verify archeological-work qualifications separately. | People who prefer large-scale surveys and quantitative analysis. |
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| Historians (adjacent occupation) | Collect and critically examine documentary and archival historical sources, write historical research, and offer historical interpretations. | History emphasizes interpretation of documents, archives, and historical sources, with possible collaboration involving physical objects and field materials; job titles do not prohibit field research. | People willing to immerse themselves in archives and critical documentary research over the long term. |
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| Geographers (adjacent occupation) | Study surface processes, land use, and regional differences, using GIS and remote sensing for spatial analysis and mapping. | Geography emphasizes relationships between space, environment, and human activities and may use GIS; it can overlap with cultural/remains research, without excluding populations. | People willing to analyze spatial data, map, and conduct field investigations. |
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Suggested selection sequence: first choose a direction (cultural anthropology and ethnography, archeological surveys and excavation, or biological and forensic anthropology), then check qualifications and education requirements (whether a master's or doctorate is required, the organization holds archeological excavation qualifications, and field experience and technical abilities such as mapping are required). Finally, confirm field and safety conditions, recording and compliance requirements, employment and income arrangements, and development paths. Directions share abilities in research design, information collection and recording, analysis, and publication; moving to adjacent occupations requires additional distinct abilities and qualifications (quantitative social surveys, documentary history, spatial analysis and planning, policy and project management). Responsibility systems differ and cannot be transferred directly.
After choosing a direction, check its actual education and qualification requirements (whether the organization holds archeological excavation qualifications, and graduate education and field experience are required), ethical review requirements, and excavated cultural relic registration and transfer rules.
Editorial ratings use the existing occupational responsibilities and AI task analysis on this page. They are not adoption rates, measured effects, job-disappearance or personal-unemployment probabilities, or official scores from Stanford or another external institution. No measured time weights or future robot deployment are assumed.
Editorial tool scenarios: explore retrieval/transcription, initial image screening, and statistical/GIS assistance. First check capabilities and material permissions, and review facts and inferences item by item; software names do not establish AI features or deployment.
Insufficient evidence: this round checked ONET/BLS and has a specific Nasca survey example, but obtained no occupation-wide AI deployment progress, adoption rate, comparative effects across tasks, causal effects on wages/employment, or disappearance year. Check archive permissions, equipment, funding, and system conditions against actual institutions; technical feasibility does not imply adoption.
BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, growth of 6.0% over 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 annual average job openings, and 8.9% self-employed. Openings include replacement needs and do not equal net new jobs or an individual's chance of being hired; US projections are not extrapolated to China. Projections are not estimates of AI effects; do not attribute increases or decreases to AI.
| Work area | Task | Current change | Human control point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research design and information collection | Collect information through observation, interviews, and document review, and consult site reports and archives to identify sites. | Editorial retrieval/organization scenarios; task-level adoption and effect studies are missing. | Editorial research-design review: check research questions, observation/interview/literature sources, authorization, and evidence scope, explaining judgments the materials can and cannot support. |
| Field surveys and excavation | Chinese archeological professionals' tasks include surveys, mapping, excavation, clearing deposits and features, recovering artifacts and specimens, and process records; actual methods depend on personal training, approved projects, and organizational procedures. | Editorial field-record assistance scenario: check system capabilities, material permissions, and approved scope, without permanent judgments about technology. | Actual excavation-unit layout, digging, stratigraphic judgments, and record control require professional training, project approval, and organizational procedures; this page's task descriptions do not confer novice fieldwork ability. |
| Processing, analysis, dating, and identification | Clean and restore cultural relics, describe their materials, forms, and decoration, and collect and analyze skeletal remains. | Editorial image/statistical assistance scenario: check formal judgments against objects and sources; no adoption rate provided. | Judge material characteristics and dates, verify identification grounds, and truthfully explain uncertainty. |
| Site assessment and protection recommendations | Assess sites for resource management, development, and protection and recommend protection. | Editorial image-comparison scenario: check the basis for protection opinions and approval requirements. | Assess site conditions and recommend protection methods, checking whether protection requirements are implemented. |
| Publication and teaching | Write and present research findings, write grant applications, and teach undergraduate and graduate students. | Editorial draft/polishing scenario: check facts, citations, authorship, and research responsibility. | Confirm adequate grounds for conclusions, stated uncertainties, and authorship and archiving under standards. |
| Records and archive management | Organize field records and artifact archives, registering, retaining, and transferring as required. | Editorial digital-summary scenario: check registered content and transfer records. | Judge whether materials and artifacts meet registration and transfer requirements, and process them as required. |
| Confidentiality and ethical management | For site locations, unpublished materials, living participants, or remains, check the corresponding jurisdiction's/institution's review, consent, and material restrictions; do not impose one set of procedures on different directions. | Editorial de-identification/permission scenario: check actual information risks and applicable rules. | Editorial material questions: confirm specific subjects, sources, and applicable authorization, review, safekeeping, and disclosure responsibilities; individual job titles do not confer independent disclosure authority. |
The five cards support US occupational tasks, wages, work and industry scope, employment projections, and software examples; they are not studies of AI causal effects. For Chinese qualifications, see entry and risk sections separately.
The table below presents editorial tool-assistance scenarios. No task-level adoption or comparative effects were obtained; no replacement-risk ranking is made.
AI primarily changesEditorial scenario: check literature retrieval and record-organization tools.
Human responsibility remainsCheck consistency among stratigraphy, coordinates, and physical objects, and judge whether records can be reviewed.
AI primarily changesEditorial scenario: check imaging, statistical, or spatial analysis systems.
Human responsibility remainsJudge whether analysis assumptions hold and results support conclusions, and report uncertainty truthfully.
AI primarily changesEditorial scenario: check artifact-image initial screening and clustering tools.
Human responsibility remainsPhysical-object observation, dating and identification conclusions, site protection recommendations, and compliance judgments.
The following five steps are an editorially suggested process for separating tool capability, human review, and authorization; they are not a mandatory regulatory or institutional process.
First check Chinese excavation organizations' qualifications, project approvals, and record-transfer conditions. Verify specific researcher/reviewer and institutional responsibilities against actual projects; do not assert that researchers alone must make all judgments. Other ethical, archive, and material procedures still require separate checks.
The editor suggests limiting material and task permissions. Tools may generate draft supporting judgments or protection recommendations; before formal adoption, check evidence and professional/project authorization.
Researchers check tool outputs against physical objects and original records, review stratigraphy, coordinates, and registration information, and record human judgments and reasons for edits.
China's Article 48 requires truthful reports, cultural relic registration and safekeeping, and timely transfer; retaining small numbers of research specimens requires provincial approval. The editor also recommends keeping original values, material versions, and omissions for review; this page has not checked comprehensive field-archive standards or guaranteed full traceability.
Check research ethics, sensitive materials, and remains handling against actual jurisdictional/institutional rules. Chinese excavation and cultural relic safekeeping follow law separately; tool features and job titles do not grant authority.
Writing tool-generated artifact descriptions or historical inferences directly into reports may present unchecked judgments as confirmed conclusions.
Control: Before publication and archiving, researchers check consistency with physical objects and original records, explaining scope and uncertainty.
Editorial data-risk questions: confirm applicable authorization, safekeeping, review, and disclosure rules for site locations, unpublished materials, living participants, and remains information. This round has not checked comprehensive ethical/information law or causal magnitudes of leaks leading to illicit excavation or privacy harms.
Control: Check material permissions, purposes, and disclosure scope against actual jurisdictions, institutions, and projects; this page does not impose identical upload or consent procedures on all directions.
Editorial record questions: distinguish original records, tool drafts, formal judgments, and revised versions; retain sources, unknowns, and correction traces for review. Tool outputs are not complete evidence chains.
Control: Keep original records and material versions, noting recording dates and traces of human edits to tool outputs.
The editor checks stratigraphy, coordinates, identifiers, and date fields against original records, retaining uncertainties for verification; this round obtained no causal magnitudes of different record errors' effects on research outcomes.
Control: Check item by item against original records and registers; review inconsistencies immediately and record corrections.
Responsibility for excavation compliance and research outputs must be attributable.
Control: Identify operators, reviewers, and approved scope in records; report and transfer matters exceeding approved scope or qualified abilities under procedure.
First check education and field-training pathways against institutional training plans and cultural relics authorities' public information. Build foundations in field procedures, stratigraphic recording, mapping, and material processing, and gain actual experience through formal field internships; do not participate in any unapproved excavation or believe unofficial promises of guaranteed examination passage or public-establishment positions.
Check tool-generated text organization, image recognition, and statistical analysis results against original records and physical objects. Before publication or archiving, confirm coordinates, stratigraphy, and identification conclusions are accurate; do not treat tool outputs directly as research conclusions.
The editor recommends clarifying material permissions, output checks, record versions, and responsibilities. Verify deployment and review against actual systems, projects, and jurisdictions, without conclusions about permanent replacement.
Focus training on field procedures, interpreting stratigraphy and feature relationships, physical-object recording and description, material processing, and writing standards, strengthening critical use of automated recognition and generated content and awareness of error.
Specific research example: the PNAS2024 Nasca paper reports discovering 303 new figurative geoglyphs in Peru's Nasca region using AI image screening with 6 months of field surveys. The original includes field confirmation; not all 303 were independently confirmed by AI. The region, image subjects, and research design do not represent occupation-wide adoption, artifact-identification effects, or causal effects on wages or employment. Insufficient evidence remains for occupational adoption, cross-task comparisons, wage/employment causation, and disappearance year; do not rank occupational replacement from one example.
Source: ONET tasks and BLS EP2025–2035 (editorial boundary explanation)Original source ↗
ONET lists development tools and C++ but does not require programming in every position. Check statistical, GIS, database, or code requirements by research direction; do not broadly answer that it is unnecessary.
Source: ONET details: tasks and software (editorial preparation suggestions)Original source ↗
The Nasca example shows image screening accompanying field surveys in specific research; it cannot rank replacement risks for literature, artifact, remains, and spatial-analysis tasks. Check actual systems, subjects, authorization, and review conditions separately.
Source: O*NET 19-3091.00 task descriptions (editorial summary)Original source ↗
BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, growth of 6.0% over 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 annual average job openings, and 8.9% self-employed. Openings include replacement needs and do not equal net new jobs or an individual's chance of being hired; US projections are not extrapolated to China. US OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical for entry, with some positions requiring a doctorate; a bachelor's degree plus relevant experience may lead to field/laboratory technician or research-assistant entry positions. Respondents to ONET's new-hire education question answered doctorate 40%, master's 30%, bachelor's 20%; these are not practitioners' educational composition. Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above is a US preparation reference, not a uniform Chinese threshold. Check actual institutions and training conditions for entry; US respondent work intensity does not predict individual suitability.
Source: BLS EP2025–2035 and ONET details (editorial suggestions)Original source ↗
Tools can assist field records or analysis; operational decisions, checks, and responsibility are allocated by organizations, projects, and jurisdictions. Technical capabilities do not automatically grant excavation authority or support claims that human judgment can never be assisted or replaced.
Source: O*NET 19-3091.00 tasks and work context (editorial explanation)Original source ↗
Insufficient evidence: this round checked ONET/BLS but obtained no reliable evidence for this occupation's disappearance year; 2025–2035 projections cannot be extrapolated to a disappearance date.
Source: BLS employment projections (official-source boundary explanation)Original source ↗
Practise research design, observation/interviews, material recording, analysis, and writing by direction, and check institutional education and training requirements. Chinese excavation requires organizational qualifications and project approval; practice with the fictional materials below does not mean work is authorized.
Source: ONET tasks and OOH education (editorial suggestions; Chinese law covered separately in qualifications)Original source ↗
The above distinguishes automation capabilities, actual deployment, and employment outcomes; the next section presents mainland Chinese salary references and explains their statistical scope.
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no Chinese employment-arrangement shares for this occupation; professional/technical personnel 155,491, non-private education 133,539, and non-private culture and related industries 129,447 yuan are broad references, not occupational wages.
Scenario comparisons require matching work direction, organization type, education and professional titles, project funding, and location; industry proxies cannot replace written remuneration terms.
| Educational background | Role directions to investigate (editorial suggestions) | Explanation and verification suggestions |
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| Junior college or bachelor's degree (archeology, anthropology, history, and related programs) | Archeological technicians and field-recording support | Editorial support direction: check position-specific program, education, field training, and responsibility requirements. This round obtained no nationwide education comparison for technicians/recording support, so makes no claim of more relaxed requirements or greater emphasis on skills. Excavation still requires organizational qualification and project checks. |
| Master's degree (archeology, anthropology, and related programs) | Researchers and key project personnel in cultural relics/archeological institutions | US OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical; check Chinese research/professional position conditions institution by institution, without substituting US new-hire education percentages for Chinese thresholds. |
| Doctorate (archeology, anthropology, and related programs) | University teachers and research-institute researchers | Some US positions require a doctorate; this round did not check actual Chinese university/research-institution recruitment conditions item by item. Education does not automatically grant research-project or excavation authority. |
| Education and program requirements vary by organization (cultural heritage consulting and corporate positions) | Cultural heritage consulting and project management | Editorial consulting direction: check primary tasks, project employment, and written conditions, without claiming all enterprises value field experience more highly; verify excavation organizations' qualifications and approval separately. |
When checking your expectations, first confirm work direction (cultural anthropology and ethnography, archeological surveys and excavation, biological and forensic anthropology, applied anthropology), organization type (universities/research institutes, cultural relics/archeological institutions, cultural heritage consulting enterprises), employment arrangements (established posts, project employment, or freelance writing), and whether field allowances and project performance pay are included. Do not substitute industry proxies for written remuneration terms or convert US occupation-specific figures into renminbi expectations.
The editor checks primary tasks and conditions for research, information, or consulting positions; this round has no Chinese occupational industry shares and cannot claim the highest concentration.
The editor checks primary tasks and requirements for university research and teaching positions; industry averages are not teaching/research wages.
The editor checks management, administrative, and research responsibilities and actual recruitment conditions; institutional names do not automatically determine statistical industries.
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no causal study of AI and wages for this occupation. The editor checks written conditions for work direction, organization, location, contracts, field allowances, and project performance pay, without quantifying wage effects.
| Median: USD 70,770/year (occupation-specific scope, month 5 of 2025), the distribution midpoint rather than starting pay. |
| Top 10% | 108,060 dollars/year (51.95 dollars/hour) | Official annual wages, not an individual's take-home pay | ONET states that the highest 10% have annual wages of USD 108060 or more; a distribution position that does not imply doctorate holders, tenured faculty, or management composition. |
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Wages · 10th percentile：USD 49,050/year (P10)；Annual wage P10, hourly USD 23.58； a distribution position, not starting pay or statutory minimum wage；ONET wages
Wages · 25th percentile：USD 59,400/year；Annual wage P25, hourly USD 28.56；ONET wages
Wages · median：USD 70,770/year；May2025 median annual wage, hourly USD 34.02；BLS OOH
Wages · 75th percentile：USD 89,670/year；Annual wage P75, hourly USD 43.11；ONET wages
Wages · 90th percentile：USD 108,060/year (P90)；Annual wage P90, hourly USD 51.95； percentiles cannot imply the composition of doctorate holders, tenured faculty, or other groups；ONET wages
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no US occupation-specific newcomer wage distribution. No. The national median is the statistical midpoint, not newcomers' starting pay. Typical US education is at least a master's degree; check some bachelor's-level support positions separately.
No. OEWS hourly/annual wages are statistical measures; without actual contracts and hours, they cannot estimate individual full-year income or represent self-employment income.
May2025 wages come from ONET-displayed BLS, projections from EP2025–2035 separately listed 19-3091, and industry medians from OOH; the occupation is consistent. Do not incorrectly describe OOH as covering a different occupation.
No. US figures are US occupational statistics and do not belong to the same system as this page's Chinese industry-category and occupational-category proxies. Neither can be extrapolated to the other or converted into renminbi expectations.
| Industry | Median wage for this occupation within the industry | How to interpret this value |
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| Federal government (excluding postal services) | USD 91,560/year | OOH May2025 median annual wage for this occupation in this industry; 2025 occupational employer share 19%, not wages throughout government. |
| Engineering services | USD 66,560/year | OOH May2025 median annual wage for this occupation in this industry; 2025 occupational employer share 6%, not all professional services. |
| Management, scientific, and technical consulting services | USD 64,860/year | OOH May2025 median annual wage for this occupation in this industry; 2025 occupational employer share 28%. |
| State colleges, universities, and professional schools | USD 54,160/year | OOH May2025 median annual wage for this occupation in this industry; 2025 occupational employer share 4%. The same page's social-science/humanities research and development median USD 63,920 and share 23% are not incorporated into this row. |
Among US ONET respondents, 70% work more than 40 hours weekly and 25% work 40 hours; OOH fieldwork may involve extended or irregular schedules. Statistical annual wages do not equal individual full-year earnings, which require contracts and actual remuneration.
The editor checks field seasons, project cycles, and remuneration scope; ONET50% irregular schedules is a US respondent percentage and does not prove that short contracts necessarily make income more variable.
Among US ONET respondents, 11% have outdoor weather exposure at least weekly but not daily, 50% irregular schedules, 70% work more than 40 hours weekly, and 26% extreme/32% high competition; this is work background, not proof of individual long-term sustainability or medical causation. OOH separately discusses distant travel, weather, and long periods.
EP19-3091 national employment； self-employed 8.9%, not a Chinese share；BLS EP
10200 in 2025→10800 in 2035, official net increase 600； not a causal AI effect；BLS EP
800 annual average openings over 2025–2035, including replacement needs, not net new jobs；BLS EP
Which Holland interest types are closer to anthropology and archeology?
O*NET 19-3091.00 has interest code IA (Investigative, Artistic): Investigative corresponds to observing, analyzing, and explaining natural and social phenomena; Artistic to humanities and expressive activities. The combination corresponds to research based on materials and documents requiring extended analysis and interpretation, but suitability depends on research design and field abilities, recording standards, and academic outputs.
Do not use it this way: Treating interest codes as hiring or admission criteria; interests do not equal research, fieldwork, or academic writing abilities.
Assess my Holland occupational interestsWhich Big Five traits are more relevant to this work?
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no occupation-specific validity studies for personality-scale screening. Editorial self-check: understand yourself through completing records, checking materials, and accepting revision feedback, without screening by Big Five scores.
Do not use it this way: Replacing actual research training and outputs with personality labels.
View my Big Five personality traitsCan MBTI be used to judge whether anthropology and archeology suit me?
The editor suggests not using MBTI types as admission or hiring conditions. This round obtained no occupation-specific matching validity; check professional training, actual positions, and work samples.
Do not use it this way: Replacing actual research experience and outputs with type labels.
Understand my MBTI preferencesCan the Enneagram indicate whether this occupation suits me?
The Enneagram is an editorial self-exploration suggestion, not evidence of competence. Check education, training, and Chinese excavation qualifications against specific institutions and law.
Do not use it this way: The editor may discuss research arrangements and specific improvements after setbacks, without judging competence by type labels; this round obtained no causal evidence that type explanations affect improvement opportunities.
Explore my Enneagram patternsCan I become an anthropologist or archeologist if I am not good at math?
ONET lists reading comprehension, critical thinking, and research-related abilities, but this round obtained no uniform occupational IQ entry threshold or screening-validity evidence. The editor checks actual education, training, work samples, and institutional requirements, without judging hiring by scores.
Do not use it this way: Treating “bad at mathematics” as a fixed label overlooks trainability.
Understand my intelligence and reasoning performanceDo anthropologists and archeologists need high emotional intelligence?
The editor checks listening, recording, and truthful explanations in community research, team fieldwork, or collaboration. This round obtained no occupation-specific emotional intelligence screening threshold or predictive validity; verify applicable ethics and material permissions with specific institutions.
Do not use it this way: Changing records or bypassing compliance procedures because of research progress or funding pressure.
Understand my emotional intelligence capabilitiesFits better when: Suits people willing to conduct questionnaires, social surveys, and quantitative analysis.
Watch for: Sociology emphasizes social relations and institutions, using qualitative or quantitative methods; it may overlap with ethnographic research. Develop additional methods according to positions.
Explore related career: SociologistsFits better when: Suits people willing to immerse themselves in archives and critical documentary research over the long term.
Watch for: History emphasizes historical-source interpretation and may collaborate with archeological material/field research; job titles do not prohibit physical-object research.
Explore related career: HistoriansFits better when: Suits people willing to research collections, plan exhibitions, and communicate with the public.
Watch for: Curating emphasizes collections and exhibitions, but ONET anthropology/archeology tasks also include exhibitions, preservation, and restoration; verify specific professional treatment and authorization separately.
Explore related career: CuratorsFits better when: Suits people willing to design questionnaires, carry out social surveys, and analyze data.
Watch for: Survey researchers emphasize survey design and data interpretation; research freedom depends on projects, without a ranking.
Explore related career: Survey ResearchersFits better when: Suits people willing to analyze spatial data, map, and conduct field investigations.
Watch for: Geography also studies relationships between human activities and space/environment and may overlap with cultural remains research, without excluding populations.
Explore related career: GeographersFits better when: Suits people willing to collect and process data under standards in research projects.
Watch for: Collect, code, and organize information in research teams, usually without independently leading research design.
Explore related career: Social Science Research AssistantsThe editor observes truthful recording, review and explanation of unknowns, and actual training and outputs; this round obtained no occupation-specific validity for these behaviors in hiring or reliability, and makes no personality-type judgment.
The editor suggests checking active communication, listening, and independent reading/writing abilities against actual tasks, without judging by introvert labels. Among US ONET respondents, 47% have daily face-to-face discussions and 15% rate dealing with external customers/the public extremely important; percentages do not prove personality advantages or disadvantages.
Extraversion does not guarantee interview or coordination advantages; also check listening, recording, and sustained writing. Paper tasks may provide an experience, without conclusions based on types.
This round obtained no occupation-specific validity evidence for MBTI screening; the editor suggests checking actual training, tasks, and work samples, without judging hiring by types.
O*NET 19-3091.00 has interest code IA (Investigative, Artistic); interest codes describe work-content tendencies, not individual diagnoses.
This round obtained no occupation-specific predictive validity for personality scores; check actual training, positions, and samples, without hiring scores.
Editorial self-checks cover document evaluation, material comparisons, and analysis performance; this round obtained no uniform occupational IQ entry score or screening-validity evidence. Check actual institutional requirements.
The editor checks listening, recording, facing uncertainty, and accepting revisions; this round obtained no occupation-specific evidence for emotional intelligence scores in entry, without judging hiring by scores.
No. The Enneagram is a self-exploration tool, not evidence of occupational fit.
Editorial paper exercise: use the complete fictional survey summary A, excavation-unit record B, and public email C below to propose further documentary checks, identify missing records, and write a public reply. All coordinates use a fictional local metric grid, not real geographical locations; do not collect materials, conduct test excavations or interviews, or handle physical objects. The work samples do not prove practice or hiring.
Possible consequence：China's Articles 41/42/48 prescribe excavation organizations' qualifications, approval, and cultural relic reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer; verify specific legal liability and damage against actual facts and jurisdictions, without quantification this round.
How to reduce risk：Work within approved plans and qualified scope, recording layer by layer and registering, transferring, and keeping excavated cultural relics under procedures.
Evidence：Cultural Relics Protection Law revised in 2024: archeological excavation
Typical scenario：Writing reports despite missing stratigraphic/coordinate records, duplicate identifiers, or inadequate identification grounds.
Roles most affected：All research and field positions
Possible consequence：The editor checks missing records, identifier conflicts, identification grounds, and their limitations on conclusions; omissions are not filled as measured data. This round obtained no uniform threshold at which errors make materials unusable.
How to reduce risk：Check records, key-field reviews, and conclusion grounds against actual project procedures, without imposing two-person review on all institutions. Retain unknowns, original values, and changes; verify specific peer-review conditions separately.
Evidence：O*NET 19-3091.00 occupational summary and task information
Typical scenario：Continuing deep excavation in adverse weather such as rain, snow, or high temperatures, inadequate protection/support, or sustained intensive work.
Roles most affected：Fieldwork positions
Possible consequence：OOH supports field travel, adverse weather, and physical demands; specific incident, progress, and project-quality consequences were not checked this round, so no occurrence rates can be given.
How to reduce risk：Field operations must follow personal training, approved projects, and actual organizational safety procedures. Check specific weather, camp, transport, equipment, and incident handling with institutions; this page provides no excavation-unit or support-operation plan.
Evidence：BLS OOH: field arrangements and working conditions
Typical scenario：Handling or disclosing participant information, remains, and materials without checking applicable review/consent/use authority.
Roles most affected：Cultural anthropology and positions involving human remains
Possible consequence：The editor checks applicable authority and review for living participants and remains sources, use, and disclosure; this round obtained no comprehensive ethical law or causal magnitude of effects on trust.
How to reduce risk：The editor checks applicable ethical review, consent, and material rules, protecting identifiable information; handle remains sources, preservation, use, and output disclosure under specific authorization.
Evidence：O*NET 19-3091.00 details (record and data requirements)
Typical scenario：Disclosing unpublished precise site locations and research materials in public channels or externally shared materials.
Roles most affected：All positions (including material management and external collaboration)
Possible consequence：The editor checks whether sensitive locations and unpublished materials may be shared externally and with which recipients; verify specific consequences of illicit excavation and site damage against facts. This round obtained no causal magnitude for leaks.
How to reduce risk：Manage site locations and unpublished materials under competent-authority and institutional requirements, controlling disclosure scope and retaining access records.
Evidence：O*NET 19-3091.00 details (record and data requirements)
Typical scenario：Records conflicting with objects, disorganized material versions, or tool outputs without traces of changes.
Roles most affected：All research and field positions
Possible consequence：The editor checks whether original values, versions, sources, and changes are reviewable; this round did not check each institution's retraction or suspension conditions. Version problems do not directly determine outcomes.
How to reduce risk：Keep original records and material versions, noting recording and modification times, and archive and transfer under institutional requirements.
Evidence：ONET details: records and context
China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own. Insufficient evidence: this round did not check specific Chinese education, professional-title, project-leader conditions, or ethical review procedures institution by institution, or US licensing requirements state by state. For living research participants, remains, sensitive locations, and unpublished materials, check the relevant jurisdiction's and institution's authorization, review, informed-consent, and information-handling rules; do not describe all types of research as following identical procedures.
| Entry direction | Initial tasks | Ability evidence to ask about | Preparation evidence without experience | Differences from adjacent positions |
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| Archeological fieldwork and recording support direction | Assist surveys, exploration, and field records according to personal training, approved projects, and organizational procedures; this page does not teach specific operations such as clearing deposits or judging stratigraphy. | Complete standardized records, ability to follow procedures, and identify and report missing records. | A/B/C plans and B's omission table, showing retention of unknowns. | Editorial support direction emphasizes records; tasks may overlap with field operators. Verify specific training/responsibilities separately. |
| Material processing and laboratory analysis direction | Under specific professional training, authorization, and researchers' guidance, organize classification and identifiers and enter/check data; cleaning and restoration depend on objects and professional procedures. Support titles do not confer abilities. | Accurate classifications and identifiers, reviewable data entry, and ability to check against objects. | B's material table: record only known pottery/stone and coordinates, with dimensions/dates/functions awaiting verification. | Editorial processing direction emphasizes records and analysis; ONET also includes preservation/restoration. Verify professional treatment abilities and authorization separately. |
| Cultural anthropology and interview survey direction | Assist interview preparation, observation records, transcription, and coding under actual research designs and participant/jurisdiction permissions; verify review/consent requirements separately. | Truthful complete interview records, de-identification under ethical requirements, and reviewable coding. | Check interview training separately if choosing this direction; this round's A/B/C includes no actual interviews and demonstrates material-permission boundaries only. | Editorial qualitative direction may overlap with survey research, without claiming an absence of quantitative tasks. |
| Research and writing support direction | Assist literature/archive retrieval, organize references and charts under standards, and help write report chapters. | Accurate citations, clear structure, and ability to revise under standards and accept evaluation. | A's plan and public draft, listing sources, unknowns, and verification questions. | Anthropological/archeological materials may overlap with documentary history; job titles do not prohibit critical source research. |
| Cultural heritage management and public interpretation direction | Assist site/artifact archive organization, exhibition participation, and writing and presentation preparation for public explanations. | Clear searchable archive entries, accurate supported explanations, and ability to answer public questions. | C's public draft, noting no basis for identifying an ancient city or opening to visitors. | Emphasizes public-explanation support; ONET also includes exhibitions, without universally excluding curating/collection research. |
US OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical for entry, with some positions requiring a doctorate; a bachelor's degree plus relevant experience may lead to field/laboratory technician or research-assistant entry positions. Respondents to ONET's new-hire education question answered doctorate 40%, master's 30%, bachelor's 20%; these are not practitioners' educational composition. Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above is a US preparation reference, not a uniform Chinese threshold.
Check Chinese position-specific education, programs, and experience against actual recruitment/training conditions; this round obtained no uniform national threshold.
China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own.
Insufficient evidence: this round did not check specific Chinese education, professional-title, project-leader conditions, or ethical review procedures institution by institution, or US licensing requirements state by state. For living research participants, remains, sensitive locations, and unpublished materials, check the relevant jurisdiction's and institution's authorization, review, informed-consent, and information-handling rules; do not describe all types of research as following identical procedures.
A: Green Cliff Terrace is a fictional site, locally 100×60 meters. An image report alone states that 3 pottery sherds appear on the south side and color differences on the north; no formal survey or dating, attribute, or preservation assessment exists, and no real location is provided.
B: T0501 local grid east/north/depth units are meters; zero is an arbitrary fictional datum. Recorder A on 2026-10-01; L1 lies above L2 but has disturbance. Table row ①Q01/L1/E2.10/N3.20/depth 0.25/pottery sherd; ②Q02/L2/E2.15/N missing/depth 0.55/pottery sherd; ③Q02/L2/E2.20/N3.30/depth 0.60/stone flake. Images confirm only that row ②'s north coordinate is unreadable; ③ has separate bag identifier B03 but no unique artifact identifier. Excavation conditions for all three rows and the L2 stratigraphic description are missing. No profile drawings, dimensions, functions, or dating data are available.
C: fictional email asks, “Is this an ancient city? Is it worth protecting? Can I excavate or visit tomorrow?” The exercise role is an individual public-education draft author, not an organizational representative; there is no opening or visiting authorization.
① List verification questions and a paper-only further-information plan: check report/image sources, scope, stratigraphy, and disturbance; identify matters requiring professional confirmation, without surface collection, test excavation, or interviews.
② Create an omission table and revision records listing unique identifiers, coordinates, stratigraphic descriptions, and excavation conditions; transcribe confirmed information and mark unconfirmed information as awaiting verification, without inventing values. Keep old records and reasons for changes.
③ Write an individual public explanation of no more than 500 characters, answering four questions about ancient-city identification/protection/excavation/visits and distinguishing materials, inferences, and unknowns; do not promise opening or reply on behalf of an organization.
Compare current A/B/C exercises and target directions, listing education, records, analysis, organizational qualifications, and project conditions, and distinguishing checked official requirements, editorial preparation suggestions, and items awaiting verification; do not fabricate recruitment conditions without an actual position.
Check that plans do not promise dates/ancient-city identification or fieldwork, ②'s north coordinate is not fabricated, and ③'s temporary identifier has traceable links to old Q02/B03, with L2 description and all three rows' excavation conditions still awaiting verification.
Attach A/B/C tasks, plans, omissions and revision records, public draft, grounds/unknowns, and next questions, labelled as fictional simulations; they do not substitute for real field experience.
State tool assistance and human checks, keeping drafts and changes; do not adopt unconfirmed coordinates, dates, or functions as generated results.
| Selection and probation stages | Checkable checkpoints | Observable evidence | Boundaries and warnings |
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| Education and professional training | Whether position-required education and anthropology or archeology backgrounds are held. | Ability to provide evidence of education, academic grades, and training direction and report research experience truthfully. | Fabricated education or research experience directly affects admission and responsibility. |
| Fieldwork and recording ability | Ability to complete surveys and records under procedures and review under supervision. | Standardized records, consistent coordinates and stratigraphy, and ability to identify and correct errors. |
Read A/B/C, choose a paper direction, list knowns and unknowns, and check this page's official occupational/education materials.
Read Articles 41/42/43/48 of this page's legal source, distinguishing organizational qualifications, project approval, individual operations, and registration/transfer; these do not replace specific institutional procedures.
Use A to write material-verification questions and a professional-confirmation list, without collecting or test excavation.
Use B to list omissions, old/new identifiers, and pending checks; do not invent coordinates for ②, and link ③'s temporary tracking identifier to bag B03.
Organize a 3-row material table, recording only provided pottery/stone and grid coordinates; dimensions, functions, dates, and conditions await verification. Do not generate identifications.
| Path or preparation item | Applicable people | Role in entering this occupation | Whether a universal threshold | Applicable conditions | Investment and duration | Limitations and risks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US master's education reference | People preparing for research positions | OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical for entry | US typical condition, not a uniform Chinese threshold | Check target courses and employers | OOH typically 2 years for a master's degree; check actual programs separately |
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: under supervisors' or project leaders' guidance, participate in surveys, exploration, and excavation, and complete material processing, records, and preliminary analysis. Check actual training, project/organizational authorization, and duties; stages, professional titles, or samples do not automatically confer independent operational, mentoring, or all management abilities.
Readiness evidence：Present a standardized excavation record form including excavation units, stratigraphy, coordinates, and artifact identifiers (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：The editor checks actual education, programs, recruitment, and training conditions, without a uniform national master's/doctoral threshold.
Next moves：The editor suggests training under actual arrangements and retaining publicly shareable standardized records, without a uniform minimum of one field season.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: independently undertake a small research or materials organization task and produce results that can be reviewed. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present a complete research report or paper and records of organizing research materials (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Complete output assessment and apply for relevant professional titles or positions under educational and institutional requirements; leading or participating in research projects requires organizational conditions.
Next moves：Independently process and analyze materials and write report chapters, revising and improving through peer review.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: independently lead research projects and supervise graduate students, taking responsibility for research compliance, ethics, and the quality of outputs. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present project approval and completion materials for research projects led, along with records of supervising trainees (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Complete professional title assessment and evaluation of research outputs as required by the institution, and apply for eligibility to lead research projects.
Next moves：Develop toward leading research projects and independently supervising trainees, or move toward institutional management and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: undertake discipline development and team training, organize major projects, and take responsibility for academic direction and outputs. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present records of discipline development, team training, and organizing major projects (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Follow institutional and competent authority requirements; for field projects, confirm institutional qualifications and the approved scope.
Next moves：Develop toward becoming a research fellow, professor, or head of a research institution, or move into cultural heritage management and policy roles.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: participate in surveys, prospecting, and excavation under the project leader's guidance, completing the cleaning of stratigraphic layers and features, collection of finds, and recording. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present excavation records, feature drawings, and artifact registers from projects participated in (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Follow competent authority requirements; work on approved projects within an institution qualified to conduct archeological excavations. Individuals must not excavate without authorization.
Next moves：The editorial suggestion is to accumulate field records according to actual project arrangements, without setting a uniform requirement of at least 2 seasons.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: undertake excavation of a unit or area and take responsibility for record quality and finds registration. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present complete excavation unit records, feature drawings, and records of conditions at discovery (editorial suggestion).
Follow institutional and competent authority requirements; excavations require submission for approval and confirmation of institutional qualifications.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: organize site and finds archives, check registration information, and catalog and archive according to standards. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present a properly cataloged inventory of materials and archiving records (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Verify the specific protection, collection, or exhibition project and role. Article 48 on managing excavated cultural relics and Article 62 on tiered approval for restoration/copying/rubbing and requirements to avoid damage do not mean that all exhibitions follow the same approval process; verify the actual process separately.
Next moves：The editorial suggestion is to complete a set of materials organization work that can be reviewed, without setting a uniform threshold of at least 20 items.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: assist with archeological surveys and prospecting before construction projects, and prepare cultural heritage impact assessment reports. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present cultural heritage impact assessment reports and field records (editorial suggestion).
Editorial development scenario: under guidance, complete field records and material processing under procedures, accurately follow recording/checking requirements, and explain omissions truthfully. Check actual training, project/organizational authorization, and duties; stages, professional titles, or samples do not automatically confer independent operational, mentoring, or all management abilities.
Editorial development scenario: independently complete a small survey or processing task with reviewable materials, write standardized research-report chapters, and accept peer feedback. Check actual training, project/organizational authorization, and duties; stages, professional titles, or samples do not automatically confer independent operational, mentoring, or all management abilities.
Editorial development scenario: lead research or excavation projects, independently complete research design, analysis, and publication, and handle compliance and ethical issues. Check actual training, project/organizational authorization, and duties; stages, professional titles, or samples do not automatically confer independent operational, mentoring, or all management abilities.
Editorial development scenario: mentor students or teams, design research plans and operational standards, or handle institutional professional management and external collaboration. Check actual training, project/organizational authorization, and duties; stages, professional titles, or samples do not automatically confer independent operational, mentoring, or all management abilities.
United States · exact (occupation-specific scope)
6.0% growth; 800 annually
Employment growth rate and average annual openings
BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, growth of 6.0% over 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 annual average job openings, and 8.9% self-employed. Openings include replacement needs and do not equal net new jobs or an individual's chance of being hired; US projections are not extrapolated to China.
Does not establish：Occupation-specific national projections for Anthropologists and Archeologists (19-3091.00); openings are not equivalent to net new jobs or a guarantee of individual employment, and cannot be extrapolated to mainland China.
United States (same OOH occupation) · exact (same occupation, current period)
6% (faster than average); about 10,200 people in 2025
Employment growth rate and employment size for the same occupation (OOH scope)
OOH supports 10200 people in 2025, 10800 in 2035, 6% growth, and 800 annual openings for the same occupation, consistent with the current EP data. It is not a different occupation or data from another period.
Does not establish：The current period for the same occupation cannot be added to EP data as a separate count; the OOH outlook does not provide causal effects of AI.
Mainland China · contextual (scope explanation)
Occupational wages are not listed separately; archeological excavation requires qualifications and submission for approval
Availability of occupational wage data and qualification framework
Insufficient evidence: this round did not obtain precise national/by-city wages for this occupation in China, national employment projections, or shares of project-based employment or freelance work. NBS2025 industry/occupational categories are only broad references and do not cover individual businesses or freelancers; coverage of project-based employees depends on legal entity and wage statistics conditions, so they cannot all be excluded. Chinese excavation qualifications and approval submission are legal conditions, not evidence of national job growth.
Does not establish：Insufficient evidence: this round did not obtain a national wage distribution or employment projections for this occupation in China; broad NBS industry averages cannot be substituted for demand data.
These are capability relationships, not automatic promotions or credential waivers.
Transfers：Editorial questions about transferability: interviewing, observation, and theoretical analysis capabilities can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in social survey design, quantitative statistics, and modeling are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: materials organization, archive searching, and research writing capabilities can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in documentary research, critical evaluation of historical sources, and historical writing standards are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: artifact research, cultural heritage knowledge, and interpretive writing capabilities can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in collection research, exhibition planning, and public communication are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: interviewing techniques, data processing, and writing capabilities can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in questionnaire design, social statistics, and delivery of commissioned reports are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: GIS, field survey, and measurement experience can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in spatial analysis, remote sensing, and mapping are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: basic capabilities in materials organization, interviewing, and coding can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in standardized data collection, coding, and project management support are needed, usually subject to team workflow constraints. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: materials organization, cataloging, and retrieval capabilities can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in archival cataloging, digitization, retrieval tools, and long-term preservation standards are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileTransfers：Editorial questions about transferability: research, writing, and academic training can guide questions about target tasks. Direct career transition validity has not been established; verify specific methods, training, and target assessments separately.
Build next：Editorial questions for a career switch: additional capabilities in curriculum design, teaching, and classroom organization experience are needed. Verify actual jurisdiction and the target's education/training/authorization conditions separately; a career switch is not guaranteed.
View career profileIA describes occupational interest content and does not judge individuals. Consider whether you are willing to record, analyze, revise, and preserve unknowns. Editorial paper exercise: use the complete fictional survey summary A, excavation unit record B, and public email C in the entry section to propose follow-up materials checks, identify missing records, and write a public reply. All coordinates use a fictional local metric grid, not real geographic locations. Do not collect, conduct trial excavations, interview, or treat physical materials; the work does not prove professional practice or hiring eligibility.
Insufficient evidence: this round checked ONET/BLS but did not obtain occupational AI adoption rates, task-level comparative effects, causal effects on wages/employment, or a year of disappearance. Task lists, software examples, and employment projections cannot prove replacement or permanent irreplaceability. Editorial tool scenarios: literature retrieval, record organization, preliminary image screening, and statistical/GIS assistance may be explored, but specific system capabilities, permissions for materials, and the basis of outputs must be checked.
The editorial suggestion is to check original materials, coordinates/identifiers, stratigraphy and disturbance, analytical grounds, citations/attribution, sensitive materials, and actual authorization. Tools may assist, but responsibility must be verified before formal adoption; technical capability is not equivalent to legal authority.
Insufficient evidence: this round obtained no precise nationwide/city-specific Chinese wages, national employment projections, or project-employed/freelancer shares for this occupation. NBS2025 industry/occupational categories are only broad references and exclude individual businesses and freelancers; whether project employment is covered depends on legal-entity employer and wage-statistics conditions, and cannot be universally excluded.
No. The May2025 national median of 70770 dollars per year/34.02 per hour is the distribution's midpoint. Annual P10/25/75/90 wages are 49050/59400/89670/108060 dollars, not newcomers' starting pay or an individual's full-year income; self-employment requires separate verification.
US OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical for entry, with some positions requiring a doctorate; a bachelor's degree plus relevant experience may lead to field/laboratory technician or research-assistant entry positions. Respondents to ONET's new-hire education question answered doctorate 40%, master's 30%, bachelor's 20%; these are not practitioners' educational composition. Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above is a US preparation reference, not a uniform Chinese threshold. China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own. Insufficient evidence: this round did not check specific Chinese education, professional-title, project-leader conditions, or ethical review procedures institution by institution, or US licensing requirements state by state. For living research participants, remains, sensitive locations, and unpublished materials, check the relevant jurisdiction's and institution's authorization, review, informed-consent, and information-handling rules; do not describe all types of research as following identical procedures.
BLS EP19-3091: 10,200 people in 2025 and 10,800 in 2035, with 6.0% growth in 2025–2035, an official net increase of 600 people, 800 average annual openings, and 8.9% self-employment. Openings include replacement demand and are not equivalent to net new jobs or an individual's chances of being hired; US projections must not be extrapolated to China. Insufficient evidence: this round did not obtain precise national/by-city wages for this occupation in China, national employment projections, or shares of project-based employment or freelance work. NBS2025 industry/occupational categories are only broad references and do not cover individual businesses or freelancers; coverage of project-based employees depends on legal entity and wage statistics conditions, so they cannot all be excluded. A switch to an adjacent occupation requires checking actual tasks, training, and authorization; hiring is not guaranteed.
Common confusions: treating excavation as treasure hunting, excavating or taking cultural relics solely on the strength of a degree, treating the median as starting pay, treating broad industry wages as Chinese occupational wages, treating an old period as the latest, treating ONET education for new hires as the workforce's education distribution, treating tool scenarios as adoption evidence, and treating paper work samples as field experience. Materials organization/research also matters, but this round has no statistics on time shares.
FermatMind Career Content Editorial Team
On 2026-10-09, this window read ONET details/May2025 national wages, BLS EP/OOH, and the 2024 Cultural Relics Protection Law. Page 167 was extracted from a reused official PDF of the same Occupational Classification Encyclopedia edition. Only the abstract/opening section of the PNAS Nazca paper was read; subsequent requests were restricted. Limited reuse of the broad NBS reference checked on month 10, day 8.
ONET19-3091 details and May2025 wages; BLS EP2025–2035 separately listed 19-3091 and OOH; the Cultural Relics Protection Law revised in 2024; the archeological professionals entry in the 2022 Occupational Classification Encyclopedia; NBS2025 broad wage references.
Limitations：30 tasks, 20 core/10 supplemental, IA, education for new hires 40/30/20, and JobZone5; current 2025 employment of 10200, 25–35 growth classification of 5%–6%/annual openings of 800; the precise 6.0% follows EP.
Limitations：Same scope for this occupation: duties, education/field arrangements, 2025 employment and 2025–2035 projections, and May2025 annual wages for five industries. Not an AI effects study.
Limitations：Separate 19-3091 row and table heading in thousands: 10.2→10.8, official 0.6/6.0%, self-employment 8.9%, annual openings 0.8; typical master's degree and no related experience/typical OJT are EP classifications and do not imply that field experience is unnecessary.
Limitations：May2025 national annual/hourly wage percentiles 10/25/50/75/90, with “or less” at the lower end and “or more” at the upper end; not substitutes for starting pay, causes of wage differences, or self-employment income.
Limitations：2025 broad pretax statistics for urban legal entities with 5 or more employees. Industry and occupational categories are not wages for this occupation; project-based employees are not uniformly excluded.
Limitations：Checked Article 5 and Articles 41–49: institutional qualifications, approval submission, survey conditions, reporting discoveries, registration, custody, and transfer. Retaining research specimens under Article 48 requires provincial approval. Not a basis for the Occupational Classification Encyclopedia, education, or ethics procedures.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Software categories and examples include statistics, GIS, CAD, databases, C++, etc.; these are not AI effects or uniform thresholds.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Used to explain that total wages are pretax, including individuals' contributions to social insurance and housing provident funds, and individual income tax.
Limitations：For the current 2025 period, professional, scientific, and technical services at 59% and government at 24% describe the US employment industry structure, not industry wages. They cannot substitute for the more detailed employer categories in OOH2025 or imply Chinese shares.
Limitations：Typically at least a master's, a doctorate for some roles, some bachelor's-level technical/support entry routes, and field experience; not a legal licensing checklist, and not checked state by state.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：US Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above, not a uniform Chinese threshold.
Limitations：Education for new hires: respondents answered 40% doctorate/30% master's/20% bachelor's; this is not the educational composition of the workforce.
Limitations：Official page displaying wage percentiles (with links for state-level and ZIP code searches).
Limitations：Alias of the same ONET details page, supporting tasks/context and related occupations; adds no independent evidence and confers no Chinese legal qualification or ethics authorization.
Limitations：Reused the official 2022 same-edition PDF already downloaded in this window; pypdf actually extracted page 167 (printed page 160) to check the 2-10-08-01 definition and 8 tasks, not the entire encyclopedia. Covers only the archeology part of the combined US occupation and confers no excavation qualification.
Limitations：Specific case of AI image screening and 6 months of field confirmation yielding 303 new figurative geoglyphs; not all 303 independently confirmed by AI. Not a substitute for occupation-wide adoption rates, effects across study objects, wage/employment causality, or Chinese authorization.
US wages are May2025 national percentiles and annual wages for five OOH industries; projections are separately listed in EP2025–2035. Current ONET also lists 2025 employment, the 25–35 classification, and the 59%/24% employment industry structure. China is represented only by broad wage references and the 2024 law/2022 occupational definition. Education, personal qualifications, and ethics procedures require institution/jurisdiction-specific verification, with no extrapolation to uniform requirements. Exercises use complete fictional inputs; unknowns must not be filled with invented numbers. A specific Nazca AI image survey case has been added, but occupational adoption, cross-task comparison, and causal effects on wages/employment remain unavailable, so no permanent replacement conclusion is drawn. Precise Chinese occupational wages/projections/employment shares, complete adjacent occupation entry conditions, and ethics and information procedures remain specific gaps.
Big Five (English) · MBTI (Chinese) · Enneagram (Chinese) · Intelligence and Reasoning Test
Fieldwork and analysis records must be reviewable. Verify Chinese excavation qualifications, approval, and cultural relic registration and transfer against law; use and disclosure of other materials, participants, or remains depend on actual jurisdictional and institutional authorization.
| Core process | Formulate research questions → Collect information → Fieldwork → Process and analyze → Form conclusions → Publish and archive. | ONET lists 21 software skill categories, including SPSS/SAS/MATLAB, AutoCAD, Access/SQL, ArcGIS, image/map tools, GPS, development tools/C++, documents, email, Office, video, and speech tools. Examples are not uniform requirements, AI effects, or Chinese recruitment thresholds; programming requirements depend on positions. OOH separately lists GIS, photography and audio recording, screens, scales, and calipers. |
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| Main outputs | Research designs and grant applications, survey reports and excavation record forms, artifact/specimen registers and images, identification and statistical analysis records, excavation reports and academic papers, public interpretation materials, work samples, and lecture materials. | Assess whether research questions are clear, methods and records reviewable, the basis and uncertainty of conclusions stated, materials archived and transferred as required, and compliance and ethical requirements met, rather than using the amount recovered in a single excavation or a single indicator. |
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| Responsible parties | Research, teaching, exhibitions, processing, and professional restoration tasks may overlap; verify responsibilities and professional treatment abilities against actual organizations. Chinese excavation approval, organizational qualifications, and excavated cultural relic registration and transfer follow law; job titles do not substitute for authority. | Allocate responsibility by research duties and compliance requirements. Before joining, check institutional qualifications (whether archeological excavation qualifications are held), project approval and record-transfer procedures, fieldwork safety and insurance arrangements, ethical review and informed-consent requirements, and agreements on academic authorship and data use. |
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| Authorization and approval | Check research ethics, informed consent, remains handling, and material permissions against applicable laws and institutional rules. Chinese excavation qualifications/approval and cultural relic registration and transfer follow the Cultural Relics Protection Law and cannot be bypassed for project progress; protect the scene and report suspected cultural relics when found. | US OOH lists at least a master's degree as typical for entry, with some positions requiring a doctorate; a bachelor's degree plus relevant experience may lead to field/laboratory technician or research-assistant entry positions. Respondents to ONET's new-hire education question answered doctorate 40%, master's 30%, bachelor's 20%; these are not practitioners' educational composition. Job Zone5/SVP8.0 and above is a US preparation reference, not a uniform Chinese threshold. China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, revised in 2024, took effect on 2025-03-01: Article 41 requires excavation approval and archeological excavation qualifications for organizations, and prohibits unauthorized excavation; Article 42 regulates approval of research excavation plans; Article 43 organizes surveys and exploration according to land and construction-project conditions; Article 48 requires truthful reporting, registration, safekeeping, and transfer, with provincial approval required to retain research specimens. Underground and other surviving cultural relics are state-owned; education or work samples do not permit individuals to excavate or possess them on their own. Insufficient evidence: this round did not check specific Chinese education, professional-title, project-leader conditions, or ethical review procedures institution by institution, or US licensing requirements state by state. For living research participants, remains, sensitive locations, and unpublished materials, check the relevant jurisdiction's and institution's authorization, review, informed-consent, and information-handling rules; do not describe all types of research as following identical procedures. |
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| Limits of conclusions | Research conclusions apply only to particular sites, materials, spatial/temporal scope, and methodological conditions; a theoretical framework may apply differently across materials and regions. Do not describe case conclusions as universal laws or preliminary identification and speculation as confirmed historical facts. | If a site risks damage, records conflict with objects, material sources cannot be verified, research involves ethical disputes, or a project exceeds its approved scope, pause the relevant work, protect the site and materials, record truthfully, and report under institutional and competent-authority procedures. Do not continue work or alter records because of research progress or funding pressure. |
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Field conditions, recording standards, and compliance procedures directly affect whether work can be completed safely and lawfully.
Organization type, project cycles, and funding competition affect long-term sustainability.
Education, experience, and outputs help assess preparation for development.
Check official and employer requirements before deciding to invest.
IA interests; activities getting information 95/interpreting 88/recording 87/analyzing 86/knowledge 85; 70% work more than 40 hours weekly, 50% irregular schedules, accuracy 25% extremely important/60% very important. Percentages and activity importance do not equal time shares and are not extrapolated to China.
ONET lists 21 software skill categories, including SPSS/SAS/MATLAB, AutoCAD, Access/SQL, ArcGIS, image/map tools, GPS, development tools/C++, documents, email, Office, video, and speech tools. Examples are not uniform requirements, AI effects, or Chinese recruitment thresholds; programming requirements depend on positions. OOH separately lists GIS, photography and audio recording, screens, scales, and calipers.
Check mapping, three-dimensional, or other equipment requirements against actual tasks; software names do not prove adoption or ability.
Plan reference: surface clues are insufficient to determine an ancient city or date; check report sources and images, whether color differences are natural/disturbed, recording datum, and stratigraphic relationships. Confirm professional survey procedures with authorized institutions; the paper exercise involves no field activity.
Record reference: ① retain Q01 and known coordinates; ② retain Q02, marking north coordinate, stratigraphy/excavation conditions as awaiting verification; ③ use temporary tracking identifier TMP-B03 linked to bag B03, marking original Q02 as duplicate awaiting verification, without falsely claiming an official unique identifier. Do not invent excavation conditions for ①–③; L2 description awaits verification. L1 above L2 with disturbance does not alone prove ②③ are earlier.
Public-explanation reference: “There are currently only pottery and color-difference clues in a fictional report; an ancient city, date, or protection grade cannot be determined. If suspected cultural relics are actually found, protect the scene and report to local cultural relics authorities, without excavating or removing them yourself. Professional archeological excavation requires organizational qualifications and approval checks. This exercise has no opening information, so tomorrow's visits cannot be confirmed; check with actual managers. All coordinates use a fictional local grid.”
All data are fictional; the exercise involves no actual sites, cultural relics, remains, or individuals, and does not represent institutions, forensic examination, skills evaluation, or hiring. Different reasonable plans are acceptable; unknowns and material limitations must be retained.
| Failure to follow procedures or fabricated records makes materials unusable and may violate rules. |
| Processing and writing ability | Whether excavated-material processing/descriptions are accurate and reports clear. | Accurate classifications and identifiers, standardized plates and descriptions, and complete citations and sources. | Using others' findings without citing sources constitutes academic misconduct. |
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| Compliance and ethics | Whether excavation approval, qualification, and ethical review requirements are understood. | Ability to explain approved scope and individual operating boundaries, handling participant information under ethical requirements. | Work beyond qualifications or approved scope, or research without informed consent, may violate law or rules. |
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Use C to write an individual draft of no more than 500 characters, checking the four reference questions, without representing institutions or promising ancient-city identification/visits.
Review the complete work samples and unknowns against references, record preferences/difficulties, and list actual training or position conditions to check; simulations are not experience.
| US doctoral education reference | People checking some research/teaching positions | OOH states some positions require a doctorate | Not required for every position | Check programs and recruitment conditions | A doctorate requires additional years and a dissertation; verify actual conditions | Does not imply a uniform Chinese university threshold |
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| Field training/internships | Choose according to research direction | OOH employers prefer relevant experience | Training suggestion, not a uniform duration | Check excavation organization and project authority separately | According to actual arrangements | Paper work samples are not actual field experience |
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| Material, GIS, and recording skills | Positions with related tasks | Support recording and analysis | ONET software examples, not universal thresholds | Check target tasks | According to actual training | Tools or certificates do not guarantee record accuracy |
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| Ethical and material preparation | People handling participants, remains, or sensitive materials | Check rights, consent, and use authority | Specific jurisdictional/institutional rules | First check applicable review, consent, safekeeping, and disclosure rules | This round did not check procedure by procedure | Different types of research cannot be described as following identical procedures |
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| Chinese organizational archeological excavation qualifications | Excavating organizations and participants | Check conditions for lawful excavation | Statutory organizational conditions in Article 41 | Organizations obtain qualifications, projects require legal approval, and individuals do not excavate without authorization | According to actual administrative procedures | Education/work samples cannot replace organizational qualifications or approval |
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The editor suggests arranging training according to actual courses and positions and showing preparation through fictional samples, without guaranteeing education, project participation, or hiring.
Next moves：Editorial development scenario: independently complete feature cleaning and recording, and participate in organizing materials and preparing reports. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: develop excavation plans and technical approaches, coordinate fieldwork, logistics, and safety, and take responsibility for project outputs. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present excavation plans, approval submission documents, interim outputs, and settlement materials (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Verify current specific conditions for project leaders and institutional requirements. These conditions were not checked individually in this round; do not fill in personal certificates on that basis. Excavation plans must be submitted for approval as required by law.
Next moves：Develop toward leading excavation projects or working in heritage management and research.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: coordinate multiple projects and teams and take responsibility for the quality and compliance of regional archeological work. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present records of managing multiple projects, quality and safety policies, and talent development (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Follow competent authority and institutional requirements; institutional management requires the corresponding appointment qualifications.
Next moves：Develop toward operational management of a research institution or coordination of regional heritage protection.
Credential boundary：Verify survey/assessment conditions against actual project tasks; excavation qualifications under Article 41 cannot automatically be extended into a uniform qualification for all assessments.
Next moves：Editorial development scenario: independently complete surveys and impact assessments within the project scope and prepare reports. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: organize site protection, exhibition, and use projects, coordinate stakeholders, and take responsibility for implementing protection measures. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present project plans, protection measures, and public explanatory materials (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Verify the specific protection/exhibition project, role, and report requirements; do not assert that all reports must be issued by institutions with the same qualification.
Next moves：Develop toward leading cultural relic protection and exhibition projects or working in public archeology.
Typical scope：Editorial development scenario: manage institutional operations and public archeology teams and take responsibility for protection and communication outcomes. Verify actual training, project/institutional authorization, and responsibilities; a career stage, title, or work sample does not automatically confer the ability to work independently, supervise trainees, or perform all management duties.
Readiness evidence：Can present records of management policies, public education projects, and cooperation agreements (editorial suggestion).
Credential boundary：Verify applicable provisions and roles separately for specific restoration of immovable cultural relics and exhibition activities. This page does not generalize them into the same approval procedure or confer the ability to perform restoration or specialized cultural relic treatment.
Next moves：Develop toward institutional management or public archeology and education.
Limitations：Editorial ratings use the existing occupational responsibilities and AI task analysis on this page. They are not adoption rates, measured effects, job-disappearance or personal-unemployment probabilities, or official scores from Stanford or another external institution. No measured time weights or future robot deployment are assumed.
