Why archaeologists dig square holes

There are also large rounds rooms called Kivas, which may have been used for rituals and ceremonies. Read more about Mesa Verde here and here. Purchase Museum Admission. Alt Sidebar. Do you know what archaeological site is pictured at the top? Scroll down to find out! Previous Seeing Underground. Newer Layers of Time. June 18, Warty Pigs! Sometimes you might see an archaeologist working in a trench measuring 1x4m. That would be 4 units in a row.

Or you might see a 2x2m block,and that would be 4 units making a big square shape. Sometimes a large number of contiguous units are excavated covering an entire site. We dig discrete levels in our units that are typically 5 or 10 cm deep. We keep track of how deep we are digging with a line level on a string and a metric tape measure.

W e record everything we find in each level. This includes artifacts, features, soil composition, rocks, roots, animal burrows, and anything else we notice. The number of levels we dig for each excavation unit varies depending on the site. Sometimes a finished unit will be fairly shallow, maybe 30cm down. Sometimes it will be deep, up to 1 meter in depth. Archaeologists use many types of tools to excavate.

Of course, the poster child of archaeology is the humble and sharp trowel. Every archaeologist that I know has their own special flat pointing trowel made for use in masonry. Trowelling is a skill that archaeologists hone, and good archaeologists can remove dirt very quickly, carefully, and accurately with their trusty trowels.

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