I hope this will never be reason to forgive a ban. I (and I think "We") don't give a fuck if you have paid 30000€ or 30€, you botted, you should be punished. But It's true that a permaban looks pretty exaggerated. At least if it's true that you ONLY botted archaeology for 1 hour...
Whatever, I think you better make a new account, start playing again and don't cheat again. Nowadays you can be raiding/pvping in a week or two since you create a lvl 1 char.