1.8: Excavating Archaeological Sites

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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