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Family archaeological tours visit archaeological spots and places of interest in a certain region or area. Such sites may be current excavations or preserved archaeological sites such as the Coliseum. You will be generally taught a little about each site.
These tours are available at almost all destinations in the world. Among the most exciting tours are tours to Greece, Britain, and Peru. The only reason why these tours are called archaeological is that the sights that you will see are major archaeological sites. Hence, you may finish the entire tour without even seeing an archaeologist or an archaeological excavation.
You may head for the archaeological tour available at your local college or university. Usually the guides for such study travel tours are archaeologists or historians. And at the end you can either lead to a knowledgeable tour guide or long lectures that completely go over your head. So when searching for archaeological tour, make sure that the type of knowledge needed and the aims of the tour reflect what you want out of the tour.
You may also get archaeological tour arranged as a travel package, which are generally suited to a sightseeing audience. Frequently the tour guide will only held a general five minute speech about the place and send you back onto the bus to travel to another site.
And general tours hardly ever allow you to get dirty. And the closest moment you will come to digging is asking the archaeologists a few quick questions as he or she presents you a pot someone found earlier that day. Thus if you want to dig you'll need to join an actual archaeological excavation.
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