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Archeology
in the Field (cont.)
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Introductory text....blah blah blah
Here students continue to filter excavated
soil through a 1/4-inch wire mesh to locate small artifacts
they might have missed
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Field
sites are hectic places. While students screen dirt in one
area, digging continues in
another. Meanwhile, a third area might be devoted to sorting
found objects, making notes, and cataloging the information
taken on site. |
Sometimes archeological excavations take researchers below
the water table at a given location. The work gets considerably
more difficult...and muddy...when that happens.
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At
left are a few of the artifacts found in the mud--a pottery
shard, a
sharpened flake of flint (chert), and a projectile point. |
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