A permit shall first be obtained from the board of trustees of the Idaho State Historical Society before any excavation in or on any prehistoric site, ruins, pictographs, petroglyphs, or any other ancient marking or writing, or in or on any archaeological or vertebrate paleontological deposit or site on any public lands in Idaho. Such permits shall be issued only to applicants who are qualified by experience or professional training to conduct such excavations in an approved scientific manner. Said trustees may appoint any such professionally qualified advisors as, in their opinion, may be needed to advise them upon the granting of said permits.