Archaeologists DON'T dig up dinosaurs, palaeontologists dig up dinosaurs .
Dinosaurs didn't live at the same time as humans - dinosaurs died about 65 million years before humans arrived on the scene. Archaeologists aren't treasure seekers. They don't sell the artifacts they find - they study the artifacts and then they usually go to a museum. The process of doing archaeology can be destructive . The purpose of archaeology is to understand how humans in the past interacted with their environment.