Archeology should be necessary to learn regardless of career path. As much as it is history, it includes the understanding of different types of people and cultures that you may come across in your lifetime.

Being more specific to careers that revolve around archeologists, fields such as architecture, research, conservation sciences, and basic communication may be applied.

As an introduction to this program, we visited numerous laboratories of research where we learned about ways of conservation and finding the age of different materials and artifacts.

Carbondating was the chemical process in looking for the age of a historical object.

Trees were a great way of keeping record of environmental impacts, for if a tree were to suffer and survive damages, we would have a narrowed idea of when and how it happened while still knowing the age of the tree. This was shown in the tree ring laboratory we visited early on in the program.

Architecture, as well as helping to protect existing historical structures, continues to give a visual image of how the great minds of the past used their resources.

During our visit to the Ruins of Casa Grande, we learned how adobe was used to protect and preserve the ruins without disrupting them too much with our impacts.

At most of the parks we visited, we had the honor of learning from and being guided by Park Rangers.

Every ranger was different but all had something in common; they had the ability to make us comfortable with their eagerness and willingness to share what they know about the cultures and places to teach about.

Although these rangers continue to learn with those they instruct, they have gained more communicative and cultural insight from those who wish to learn about their own or other cultures.

Everything in the world has its own history. The more you learn about what you enjoy, the more you can share of it with others.

Everything will link to archeology as long as humans are alive and beyond. People will continue to adopt, abandon, and create practices, and that’s only part of progress in society.