Practice question · Select all that apply
Why do excavators deliberately leave part of a site undug?
Hints
- The reasons are methodological and practical.
- Future techniques will extract evidence current ones destroy.
Show the answer
- B. Future methods will extract evidence we cannot yet read
- C. Excavation is destruction, the reserve hedges our mistakes
- D. Budgets and time rarely allow total excavation anyway
Why
DNA, isotopes, and radiocarbon all arrived after the great sites were largely dug, the strongest argument for the reserve. The untouched half is a bequest, not a leftover.
Practise Excavation Methodology
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History I is free to start.
More questions on Excavation Methodology
- Order the single-context recording routine for one layer.
- Match each sampling strategy to its logic.
- Order the stages of a well-run excavation project.
- Sort each technique: non-destructive survey or destructive excavation?
- Digging in arbitrary 20-centimeter spits is preferred over single-context excavation because it is more…
- Excavation is called the only experiment that cannot be repeated. What follows for how a site must be…