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. Archaeology is a scientific method for studying past human cultures. The artifacts and sites are messengers from the past.
Archaeologists use tools to dig in the ground and recover clues about the past.
Well, it's tough to say. Archaeologists look like you and me. Archaeologists aren't all men - there are a lot of women archaeologists. In fact, probably more than half of all archaeologists are women. Archaeologist don't generally carry a bullwhip like Indiana Jones but they do use other cool tools .