Archaeologists

Certification or Licensing

The Register of Professional Archaeologists offers voluntary registration to archaeologists who agree to "abide by an explicit code of conduct and standards of research performance." For the Registered Professional Archaeologist credential archaeologists must hold an advanced degree in archaeology, anthropology, or another related discipline (including but not limited to art history, classics, history, or museum studies). They must also have completed a thesis or dissertation, or its equivalent, that addresses a substantive archaeological question. For the Registered Archaeologist credential, archaeologists must have a bachelor's degree in one of the above subjects, have two years of supervised fieldwork, and have completed a thesis or equivalent document, with descriptive analysis, on professional archaeological investigations.