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Lab work, paperwork, compiling reports, data analytics, and artifact conservation. Once you're above the technician level, you also do a lot of coordination and might end up in contact with tribal governments and that sort of thing.
As a field tech starting out, expect to be traveling at random without much warning for anywhere between a week to a month at a time. Actual time away from home is pretty much your entire summer, and more sporadic until the mid spring/mid fall. You'll likely get nothing whatever during late fall/winter/early spring. This is for commercial archaeology, but academic archaeology operates on roughly the same schedule.
Depends where you're at and what you're doing, but it's usually
50/50, maybe 60/40 lab/field.
Books really depend on what time period and culture you're interested in. For maritime, Beneath the Seven Seas by George F. Bass is a good first book. Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas by George F. Bass is a good second book, as it's a bit more encyclopedic.