Do you consider yourself a Treasure Hunter or and Archaeologist???

[lockdownking]

I just wanted to get some perspective on some of those in here and see what kind of answers I get from my heading question.
Have some fun with answering this question but let's not go and keelhaul someone too bad.

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[GB1]

i'm consider myself a treasure hunter. because i don't mark every signal then go back later and carefully take way long to excavate it.

 

[: Michael-Robert.]

I just wanted to get some perspective on some of those in here and see what kind of answers I get from my heading question.
Have some fun with answering this question but let's not go and keelhaul someone too bad.

https://chroniclersonline.blogspot.com/

Both.....................................

 

[firemanphob]

Both. Although I don't really expect to find a pot of gold, the old horseshoes, buckles, and other antique things that I dig up are my treasures. I love finding old items especially if they belonged to my long past family members. I recently found an old sad iron that would have belonged to my grandmother or great grandmother and it meant more to me than a gold coin would have because I know they never had a gold coin to misplace.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Neither, I am just your regular ole run of the mill coin shooter.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'm a coin shooter - not "treasure" per se.

I consider myself an amateur archeologist and if I found what appeared to be an unknown historically significant structure I would let the "real" ones know. I wouldn't start pulling down stones or disturbing the site.

 

[smokeythecat]

Neither.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Both. Have a degree in history and worked on a second degree in Anthropology/Sociology with and emphasis in Archaeology. Mostly just coin shoot now.

 

[Arkie]

Arkieologist? yep that's me...

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Since I'm not much of a relic hunter, and like old coins and rings, I'll say treasure hunter. I have found a few cool relics in my quest for old coins though.

 

[jeff of pa]

Treasure Hunter of Course !

I Don't molest Dead Bodies !

I Don't Expect to get Paid to Hire Volunteers to Dig with Brushes for Free For Me.
just so I can Steal the artifacts later & Take credit for writing a Paper
No one wants to read.

I Don't Believe I own everything Under the Ground !

I Don't Believe Everything under the Ground Belongs to Everyone,
So it must stay there out of sight & Rot Away.

I Don't get Jealous When I hear someone Detected in My County.

I detect & Research (Treasure Hunt) for Fun & Hopefully Profit one Day.

But I Don't expect The Government To Pay me to go out & Do it.

It's not a job.... it's an Adventure !

 

[tinpan]

Hi ,Is that like a self-proclaimed lunch box hero ? TP

 

[BillA]

looter, don't talk

Bill

 

[tinpan]

Hi Elementary School show and tell type thread adds up to what? TP

 

[Tom_in_CA]

haha, it depends on your working definitions of each word. To a credentialed archaeologist , an MD'r (or "treasure hunter") is akin to a wife-beater or child molester. I've actually bumped into the type of archaeologist who ..... OUT THE STARTING GATE consider md'ing to be intrinsically inherently evil, unless conducted with archaeological rigor.

So if we use THEIR definition, then no, I'm not an archie. I get a beep, I dig it up, I look at it and say "cool". If it's a gold coin, I show it off to my buddies and we all muse about the value. And exchange high-5's . Period. No 30 pages of documentation. No 3 days to dig it up, blah blah.

And actually, if it comes to "preserving history", the private sector has just-as-much to thank, than the archie sector. Most of our resource reference works & books were written by the private digger sector. Eg.: Bottles, buttons, coins, etc.... were mostly all written and studied by (gasp) private sector diggers. And a bunch of stuff in museums was donated by (gasp) private sector diggers.

 

[Iffy Signals]

I am a forgiving treasure hunter. When they say hey why are you digging holes in my yard.. get off my land. I always say sorry and leave.

 

[Older The Better]

I have a degree in archaeology. I don’t practice, I like where I live too much and nobody needs an archaeologist around here so I do construction... anyway, I understand the information lost by just diving into a site and the Benefit of a careful excavation, but when I’m on my own, on my land, I don’t get too caught up in all that I just go to town. It makes the archaeologist in me cringe but my curiosity overrides my “training”. If I was paid to do it I’d be more professional

 

[Escape]

Definitely a treasure hunter. I find lots of treasure. All kinds of treasure. When I bring it home my wife often says, "Are you going to keep all that crap?"

 

[ToddsPoint]

Neither. I'm just an old man trying to get a little exercise. Gary

 

[devldog]

I consider myself as one who loves our American History, and a Relic Hunter-Collector.