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In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. [1] An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied. These locations range from one to several areas at a time during a project and can be conducted over a few weeks to several years.
The method and procedure of archaeological excavations has improved over the years and Loud's excavation does not fit into the standards of today's practices. He labeled the individual dig locations as "lots" without establishing any grid system. Grid systems are used to determine origin and depth of archaeological record. Loud recorded 41 lots ...
The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is an internationally important archaeological site north-east of Boxgrove in West Sussex with findings that date to the Lower Palaeolithic.The oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered on the site, fossils of Homo heidelbergensis dating to 500,000 years ago. [2]
Work has started to excavate 60 separate sites along the 150-mile HS2 route in what is believed to be Europe's largest archaeological dig.
The Sanxingdui archaeological site is located about 4 km northeast of Nanxing Township, Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan Province. Archaeological digs at the site showed evidence of a walled city founded c. 1,600 BCE.
Archaeologists digging through a French cliffside located a 200-year-old message in a bottle. Amidst much speculation, the team opened it to find a message from another archaeologist digging at ...
People are seen working an archaeological dig site located near Brickell on the Miami River on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, in Miami. Artifacts going back 7,000 years have been found at the site, along ...
Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river and built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts.