8 Excavating Archaeological Sites
What are the primary excavation methods ?(make a bullet point list)
Why is stratigraphy important?
What is the law of superposition? What is uniformitarianism?
Plan mapping
This large square is 1 meter by 1 meter, each small square is therefore 10 centimetres on each side.
Use grid square to answer the following questions and complete the exercises.
- What does the “X” indicate? ___________________
- This is the standard archaeology unit square, what are its dimensions?
- Look at the artifacts in the square, list their coordinates in the empty table below:
| North (cm) | East (cm) | Description |
| Coin | ||
| Stone projectile point |
Use grid square above to answer the following questions and complete the exercises.
- Map the two (2) artifacts on your map from the table below:
| North (cm) | East (cm) | Description |
| 80 | 45 | Stone tool |
| 30 | 90 | Ceramic sherd |
