How do archaeologists decide where to dig? To determine where a site might be,archaeologists conduct a survey, which can include walking through a site and digging holes of similar depths at an equal distance apart from each other, known as shovel test pits, as well as GPS, resistivity meter...
But archaeologistslikeuswant to learn about how people from the past lived all over the planet. We rely on left-behind artifacts to help fill out that picture. We need to excavate in places where there’s evidence of human activity – those clues from the past aren’t always as obvious a...
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Aspiring archaeologists should pursue advanced degrees. Fieldwork experience is important. Careers span cultural resource management, academia and more. Someone might first become curious about archaeology through a school lecture on ancient civilizations, historical artifacts in a museum or even an Indi...
Layers of undisturbed soil get older as you dig deeper. Also, artifacts found in them, arrowheads, pottery and manufactured items like nails, can be dated through the collective knowledge of historical archaeologists, based on the objects’ style and attributes. The third technique was optically ...
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Archaeologists often spend years digging and hoping they'll find the remnants of ancient civilizations. There's a lot of ground yet to be uncovered. Archaeologist Sarah Parcak says less than 10 percent of the Earth's surface has been explored, so she's leading the way to speed up the searc...
One notablefeature of the recent discoveries at Sanxingdui was the cross-subject work andtechnology applied by teams of Chinese archaeologists, which allowed theunearthing of artifacts as fragile as silk remains, which other typ...
The theft of Cambodia's cultural treasures — thousands of sacred stone, bronze and gold artifacts from religious sites across the country — might just be the greatest art heist in history. It began nearly a century ago when Cambodia was colonized by France, but in the 1970s...
If you have a university or college in town, try that. Call one of those departments—the administrative assistant who answers the phone is a great place to start. If you don't, you can locate nearby graduate programs in archaeology (where you can find places with multiple archaeologists) ...