Practice question · Put in order
Order the stages of a well-run excavation project.
- Desk-based assessment of maps, archives, and past finds
- Sampling strategy and grid laid over the site
- Excavation in single contexts, youngest first
- Publication, the archive becomes the site
- Post-excavation analysis of finds and records
- Field walking and geophysical survey
Hints
- Most of the work happens before and after the digging.
- Publication is what survives once the site is gone.
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- Desk-based assessment of maps, archives, and past finds
- Field walking and geophysical survey
- Sampling strategy and grid laid over the site
- Excavation in single contexts, youngest first
- Post-excavation analysis of finds and records
- Publication, the archive becomes the site
Why
The trowel appears at step four of six. Most of archaeology happens before and after the digging, and the publication is what survives when the site itself is spent.
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