Archaeology

Is not nearly as much as you'd think. Digging up bones and cool stuff from millions of years ago?? Wowieee!!!

Not so much. Archaeology is mostly about dating techniques and whether or not hominins are different than hominids (they are, by the way). Sure it's fascinating to figure out how we started and how we evolved and how we eventually got to where we are now but most of that fascination gets lost in the minutia of anthropological tedium. Like paperwork and walking for hours trying to find a fragment of a pinkie bone in the desert. Or putting pieces of dirt into a fancy machine and waiting for it to beep at you. That stuff really isn't so great. At least, not to me. I think I would much rather prefer to study cultures and write books and teach students than travel to Antarctica and study the remains of that observatory thing we built 100 years ago, or even than dig up human fossils in Egypt. Well, that last one would be pretty sick. So maybe I'll be a cultural anthropologist who writes books on the cultural traits of modern Egypt whoch were influenced by the ancient civilizations or something. Yeah.