This unusual answer to a common question can leave both speakers puzzled. It suggests a very wide range of possibilities for which there may be no shared mental picture. The discussion may then continue around the nature of archaeological practice: "Do you dig? with a brush?" "Or like Indiana Jones?" "Or to find out about a particular culture the Romans? or a particular site the Pyramids?" To which the archaeologists may actually be able to say very little because it isn't their speciality. These conversations are often too brief, but we can expect a passionate discussion, because Europeans find archaeology and archaeologists fascinating.