glumshoe:

cydril:

glumshoe:

Whenever I talk to kids about archaeology, I ask if they know of any fictional archaeologists from movies or TV. Some of them know Indiana Jones, but I like to mention Ariel from The Little Mermaid because she’s actually seen, like… studying artifacts to learn about the people who made them rather than just. Uh. Acquiring them from other people. She also seems to do a damn fine job of conserving them.

Thats not archaeology its anthropology.

She studies and conserves physical artifacts left behind by humans she cannot observe or speak to in order to learn about them. That is archaeology. Only after she is able to observe and interact with them does it stop being archaeology.