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 🔗Archaeology Collections Intern – 640 hours

  • Internship
  • NCPE Internship
  • Santa Fe, NM
  • $24.00 USD / Hour
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: Bureau of Land Management - Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Center for New Mexico Achaeology
  • Job Reference #: 4086b
  • Job Qualifications:

    Applicants should be upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in anthropology or museum studies with prior course work, training, experience, or other knowledge of the material culture of New Mexico. Should be comfortable being in proximity to indigenous culturally sensitive objects, such as funerary items, for the purpose of NAGPRA inventories.  Competent using Microsoft Office Suite.

  • How to Apply:

    Click on the application button at this listing and following the instructions for applying online

  • Job benefits: Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: Able to lift 40 lb. boxes and work in a dusty environment.
  • Application Email: waso_cr-interns@nps.gov

National Park Service/NCPE Internship Program

The Archaeological Research Collection (ARC) of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and Laboratory of Anthropology are actively used for research and education by scholars, students, and artists. The Museum serves as the repository for archaeological material collected from lands owned by the State of New Mexico, and about half the collections are from state land, or have been donated to the Museum from private land. The other half of the collections are from federal or tribal lands, and the collections are managed by ARC on behalf of the client agencies.

This in-person internship will assist with the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) archaeological collections housed at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology, with a focus on objects that fall under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The intern will organize archaeological collections by identifying, sorting, tagging, and re-housing artifacts, perform artifact data entry, object photography, confirm NAGPRA inventories, and conduct archival research on BLM collections.

This position is funded by the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE), in cooperation with the National Park Service. Program eligibility requirements apply; visit https://preservenet.org/ncpe-internships/ for details and instructions on how to apply.