Field Archaeology
Below are our 7 articles in the 'field archaeology' category:

In archaeology, the term excavation simply means the 'dig'. It may sound like an over-simplification but 'dig' is probably the most concise word to describe the process of excavation on an ...

Until the 1960s archaeological expeditions were mostly concerned with underground excavation. Since then, excavators have turned to less intrusive and cost effective methods for recovering data from ...

Work alongside historians and professional archaeologists on projects including archaeological site excavation rock art exploration and restoration, ground survey, archival research, or historic ...

How does an archaeologist know exactly where to dig? Bringing 120 people to the middle of a remote desert to excavate for a lost city and then finding nothing but the sand you dug could be a costly ...

Geophysical probing on archaeological sites is a rapid non-invasive, non-destructive data gathering method that does not disturb the topography or the archaeological record of the site.
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In the archaeological laboratory, technicians are using microscopes, x-ray machines, performing chemical analysis experiments, re-photographing with infra-red, ultra-violet and other specialist ...

Archaeologists attempt to study the archaeological record in order to understand the human interaction at a particular location across the history of time. There are two sources of information that ...