? What is the difference between an archaeologist and a paleontologist?
? What is the biggest dinosaur?
Many people ask archaeologist about dinosaurs, but archaeologist don't study dinosaurs. Archaeologists study the human past. Paleontologists study dinosaur bones. Both do dig, and both do study bones. But archaeologists study animal bones to understand what humans were eating in the past.
You might want to check out this article by Jason M. Fancher that includes a big reason archaeologists don't study dinosaurs - "For the entire time that people have been around, dinosaurs have been extinct. "
http://saa.org/ForthePublic/FunforAllAges/DoArchaeologistsDigDinosaurBones/tabid/1066/Default.aspx
Answer provided by Carol
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