Most people enjoy the process of fieldwork more than just about anything else. It's the perfect combination of physical activity and mental work--problem solving. Not to mention the great company. How many other fields let you engage emotionally, intellectually, and physically with their subject matter on so many levels? ... Ostensibly, we're out there to find things and record things so we can come to conclusions. But is that what archaeologists enjoy most about their job? Is that what keeps bringing them back? I don't believe it... Field archaeology is just too much fun.
Adrian Praetzellis. 2003. Dug to Death. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
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