Necessary Or Unconstitutional Or Avocational Archaeology?

Both institutional archaeologists and avocational archaeologists should have just gotten along before things got out of hand. Both of them had the same goal in mind, retrieve the artifacts. Avocational archaeologists were a big help in giving information to institutional archaeologists. There is probably more Avocational archaeologists then professional archaeologists because you do not need a degree to practice Avocational archaeology. Now that they have been pushed away both parties take a loss. They need to make terms once again so archaeology can have a greater influence. Since nothing really has been done to bring both parties together once again it will be hard to do it once more. Furthermore, avocational archaeologists are mostly seen
as “looters” which only makes things worse. This not only effects avocational archaeologists but archaeology in general. Since there are like 4 times the amount of Avocational people, they are the one with the greatest influence. Usually you would want to have the people with the power, not go against them. Of course not all institutional archaeologists think this way. There are the ones who very much enjoy avocational archaeologists. It is up to them to change the mind of the other institutional archaeologists. This change cannot wait any more because as time progress opinions will change for the worse. Avocational archaeologists will be seen as looters and nothing more, and institutional archaeologists will be seen as the cause for Avocational archaeologist’s ways.