Section 4190.404  Requirements for Supervisory Archaeological Field Technician Certification

A State certified professional supervisory archaeological field technician must, at a minimum:

a)         have been awarded a bachelor's degree, from an accredited college or university, in archaeology, anthropology, or another germane discipline, including, but not limited to, history, classics or geoarcheology, and:

1)         have 16 weeks of supervised field training in time blocks of at least 4 weeks duration.  At least half of this experience must be in field investigation excavation (Phase II or Phase III), and

2)         have 8 weeks of supervised laboratory analysis or curation experience, which may be accumulated on a part-time basis; or

b)         have an unrelated bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and 12 months of professional archaeological field experience in the Mid-continental Region under the supervision of someone meeting the qualifications of Section 4190.405.  At least 4 months of this experience must be in field investigation excavation (Phase II or Phase III).