Now why would they want to discourage it? So people are not A) digging artifacts out of the ground, because their surrounding area is as important as the artifact itself. The reason being, it possibly tells you something about the time period and circumstance of why it is there in the first place. And B) so private people are not just selling treasures that belong to all. To quote the one guy who might be the worst archaeologist: “it belongs in a museum”
Most likely to discourage people from doing that.
Now why would they want to discourage it? So people are not A) digging artifacts out of the ground, because their surrounding area is as important as the artifact itself. The reason being, it possibly tells you something about the time period and circumstance of why it is there in the first place. And B) so private people are not just selling treasures that belong to all. To quote the one guy who might be the worst archaeologist: “it belongs in a museum”