Like others have said before me, it sounds like you’d be more interested in anthropology than archaeology. However, I should mention that in North America archaeology is generally considered to be one of the four main fields of anthropology (along with biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology). Archaeology in Europe tends to be grouped with history instead. I’m actually an archaeologist, and I can tell you it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s usually pretty tedious work. This is especially true in the world of Cultural Resource Management, which is where the vast majority of archaeology jobs in North America are. Perhaps work isn’t as tedious for archaeologists in academia, but I’m in CRM so I wouldn’t know.
