What classes should you take in high school to become a archaeologist?

Question

ok please i really want to become a archaeologist but i don't know what classes to take can someone help me please?

Answer 1

Well, history is really important as well as social studies. If you have some sort of other classes based on cultures, you might want to take them. Also becoming multi-lingual can be very helpful in this occupation. So take some sort of different language. These will all help along the way.Good luck.

Answer 2

You should take all the courses you need to get into high school, and concentrate on history and science courses.  Math is useful too, and so is English - scientists need to be able to write papers and grants.

Answer 3

First of all, you are confusing Greek Mythology with Archaeology.

Second, The above people really don't know anything about this field from looking at their comments.

Third, This is a common mistake, don't worry asking questions is a good thing.

I will tell you what it takes because I considered this.

Scholastically, just meet the basic pre-reqs for college and its a good thing to meet the science pre-reqs.  Take AP tests in all the sciences and also Eng., Some language and American or world hsitory if they are offered.  This will save you time at a Univ.  If not jsut take this stuff at the Univ.

Studying Greek Mythology formally at a Univ. requires majoring in the Classics.  You will receive a formal humanities education with little or no science.  You will also need to learn ancient Greek and/or Latin. You will also learn a rough historical outline of Ancient Greece or Rome.  

Univ. of Chicago or Ivy League or Berkeley have good depts.

And you will also be reading Polybius, Xenophon or other works in greek or latin.  

For Archaeology:

Archaeology falls under the Anthropology dept in the US.

Archaeology is one of four sub-disciplines in Anthropology.

The other three are linguistic, physical and cultural anthropology.

Schools on the West coast usually study Mayan and Aztec Archaeology and schools on the east coast study European or central asian archaeology.  Although both east and west have depts. in the other fields.

So you could double major in both, classics and Archaeology.

To become an "official archaeologist" you have to get a Phd. and go 80k in debt and have limited job opportunities besides teaching.

Most American Archaeologists work in Resource management protecting archaeological remains in the United States and have a budget and job of digging out indian sites before construction begins.

Others specialize in forensic anthroplogy and work to solve crimes and testify as expert witnesses to show cause of death.

The rest teach at Universities, State Colleges or Junior colleges.  Msot of them do both or all fo the above to make a living.  In the summer they go abroad and dig in some remote or popualted part of the world.

Archaeology is an outdoor job.  So be prepared to get a tan.  Alot of it is dirty.

I have personally volunteered at Archaeological sites and it is very physically intensive.

So this is what is required:

humanities degree in Anthropology and grad school or graduating with a classics degree and going to grad school.

Some people major in biological anthropology because this gives them a science background so they can branch off into another field like medicine for more job opportunities.  Others get a chem. degree and go into Carbon-dating or work with mass spectrometers which are used to heat up samples and get radiological dates of some sort from archaeological samples.

Job opportunites for both are nil.  So please reconsider this.  This sort of thing takes alot of hard work and reading.  

So there you have it.

Either way make sure you can get a job with whatever degree you choose.

Answer 4

AP® Biology

AP Human Geography

Chemistry

A Foreign language

AP or simply World History

Sociology

English Composition

Answer 5

you have to take all the math/science/history/english classes anyway so i wouldn't worry about what classes to take until college.