One of my friends is an archaeologist. My view of an archaeologist was always one where they are leisurely researching history, finding locations for finds, cau

One of my friends is an archaeologist. My view of an archaeologist was always one where they are leisurely researching history, finding locations for finds, cautiously digging in the fields, sorting shards of pottery, etc. She described instead a potentially stressful job performing surveys on urban sites to determine the historical significance of a location to give a go/no-go to developers looking to build a multi-million dollar apartment complex on top of what once might have been the governors home, which was once on top of an officer's quarters, which was once an indigenous settlement.