What are the challenges of being an archaeologist?

We organize these challenges into five topics: (1) emergence, communities, and complexity; (2) resilience, persistence, transformation, and collapse; (3) movement, mobility, and migration; (4) cognition, behavior, and identity; and (5) human-environment interactions.

What Archaeology is not?

DON’T DO: Archaeolgists do not study dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were extinct long before humans and ancestral humans began to roam the earth. DO: Archaeologists are specialists, they are trained experts in the treatment and handling of archaeological materials in their particular field.

What are the three major values of Archaeology?

Darvill identifies three types of value in archaeology: use-value (present requirements), option value (future possibilities) and existence value (‘because it is there’).

What is the biggest archaeological discovery?

Top ten archaeological discoveries

• Rosetta Stone.
• Terracotta Army.
• Richard III’s grave.
• Olduvai Gorge.
• Cave of Altamira.
• Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Easter Island Moai.
• Staffordshire Hoard. The Staffordshire Hoard represents the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found.

What dangers might archaeologists encounter when searching ancient sites?

Archaeology has plenty of enemies—attackers and destroyers of artifacts. Most are microscopic (like bacteria) or invisible (like the wind and earthquakes). Some are human: Looters and vandals have stolen artifacts and ruined sites since at least the time of ancient Egypt.

What are some of the biggest challenges that archaeologists face today?

The challenges addressed questions of emergence, complexity, demography, mobility, identity, resilience, and human–environment interactions. There is a notable lack of concern with the earliest, the largest, and the otherwise unique. They show an increasing concern with relevance to the contemporary world.

Is archaeology a fun career?

Archaeology is always exciting and fun. Like any job or pursuit, archaeology has many tasks that are difficult, dirty, and sometimes less than exciting, but must be completed.

Does archeology pay well?

Archaeologists made a median salary of $63,670 in 2019. The best-paid 25 percent made $81,480 that year, while the lowest-paid 25 percent made $49,760.

How does archaeology help us in understanding the past?

Archaeology provides us with the opportunity to learn about past cultures through the study of artifacts, animal bones and sometimes human bones. Studying these artifacts helps to provide us with some insight about what life was like for people who left behind no written record.

Why is archaeology important global perspectives local concerns?

By understanding the goals of archaeological research, students discover that their actions can influence the future, and impact both environment and society. Finally, by understanding and appreciating the world they live in through study of the past and present, students become better-informed global citizens.

Who is the best archaeologists in the world?

10 of History’s Greatest Archaeologists

• Flavio Biondo. While the history of Ancient Rome is well-studied and documented by now, that wasn’t the case back in the 15th century.
• Thomas Jefferson.
• Mortimer Wheeler.
• Kathleen Kenyon.
• Dorothy Garrod.
• Arthur Evans.
• Robert John Braidwood.
• Howard Carter.