Archaeology & Related Jobs

This unusual answer to a common question can leave both speakers puzzled. It suggests a very wide range of possibilities for which there may be no shared mental picture. The discussion may then continue around the nature of archaeological practice: "Do you dig?... with a brush?" "Or like Indiana Jones?" "Or to find out about a particular culture – the Romans? – or a particular site – the Pyramids?" To which the archaeologists may actually be able to say very little because it isn't their sp...