Some of my best work has come out of conversations over coffee. If you ever get an opportunity, do some eavesdropping in a university cafeteria. You'll be able to identify the archaeologists as soon as you hear them. Or guys, parties, cars, sports or they'll be complaining about some aspect of the university's administration. Archaeology students, on the other hand, will be deep in debates about seriation, taphonomic filtering, and research designs.
Archaeologists are indeed a breed apart.
It takes a very special person to become an archaeologist. He or she must possess several qualities not found in ordinary man. To be an archaeologist, one must be endowed with enormous patience. Some are born with it. Others have to learn it.