All small children are archaeologists

- or are all archaeologists children?

Either way there are several striking similarities in the behaviour of the two.


Just watch a small child at play outdoors:

• Browsing the ground, picking up scraps


• testing the objects picked up by putting them into mouth - regardless of them being covered in dirt or sand
  
• Love DIGGING


• Dressed in an all-weather proof outfit where practicality overrules aesthetics


• Leaving traces of mudd in the car, house, supermarket or whereever he/she goes

Now watch the (field-)arcaheologist at work:

• Browsing the ground, picking up scraps


• testing the objects picked up by putting them into mouth - regardless of them being covered in dirt or sand


• Love DIGGING


• Dressed in an all-weather proof outfit where practicality overrules aesthetics


• Leaving traces of mudd in the car, house, supermarket or whereever he/she goes

Conclusion: Perhaps archaeololgists are simply the segment of the population that never grew out of it...