Archaeologists do not spend all of their time digging. All of the material found on a dig must be washed, catalogued, and studied. The final and most important step of any dig is for archaeologists to write about what they find and learn. So, although digging takes a lot of time and effort, even more time is spent analyzing the material after it is removed from the ground. Archaeology is part of the study of Anthropology.
Anthropology is the study of humans' ways of life, or culture .
There are four main fields of anthropology. Physical anthropology is the study of humans' common physical traits and how they have changed over time. A linguist is an anthropologist who studies the development and spread of languages. A cultural anthropologist studies the traditions, economies, and technologies of living groups of people. Archaeology is the branch of anthropology that studies the cultures of people who lived in the past .