This trope is Older Than Radio, an accomplishment when considering that archeology as a modern profession is less than two centuries old. To keep the audience rooting for the Adventurer Archaeologist, he or she is often pitted against an Evil Counterpart who wants the same treasure for themselves to hoard in a private collection, or to give it to the bad guys/sell to the highest bidder, use it to Take Over the World, etc. However, to an Adventurer Archaeologist, it's okay as long as it goes into a museum. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, it's noted that the title character has been called a " grave robber" (although real archaeologists were once considered that and some still are). Most people call this "theft", few others would call this "imperialism". Of course, real imperialists didn't believe the people around ancient sites were worth considering either. It's not imperialism if the people who are guarding them aren't even human after all. Ruins are rarely really "abandoned" as the descendants of the Precursors, or their ghosts, or even their mystically preserved selves are very upset when outsiders intrude, and especially when they take the focal points of their culture with them. (Compare Badass Bookworm.) An Adventurer Archaeologist has an interesting morality. Who cares if you have to destroy ancient machinery that could well be thousands of years old and still works? There's a gold monkey at the end! And you get to wear a dashing Adventurer Outfit!Īdventurer Archaeologists are capable of dressing up very well for more intellectual appearances, but forays into studying usually occur off-screen, and it's never implied to take very long. In fiction, it then becomes perfectly reasonable to use any means to acquire said MacGuffins, no matter how destructive. If it takes place on Earth and the writers don't make one up, it'll usually be something like an Egyptian tomb (expect a mummy to haunt our hero), a Mayincatec temple, or the Holy Grail. Since most of the world has the ruins of ancient and powerful civilizations littered under the surface, archeology is a career that brings one constantly face to face with Temples of Doom Lost Technology, imprisoned evils, and MacGuffins. Additionally, a dump will have items of low or underestimated value, reducing the allure for tomb robbers who might have broken into tombs and ruined the information. A real archaeologist can make her or his career by the meticulous analysis of the contents of a garbage dump and indeed, they (well, a few) would prefer to find the dump rather than a king's tomb, since the dump can tell them far more about the way ordinary people lived, with far fewer legal and ethical ramifications.
It can involve a lot of research, dirt, and going over small details like diet and theorizing on them. In Real Life, archeology, or modern archeology to be specific, is not the most fast-paced of careers.
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