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Excavating Occaneechi Town
Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in
North Carolina
Edited by R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., Patrick C. Livingood, H. Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis
Copyright © 1998 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-8078-6503-6 (cd-rom & booklet).
NOTE TO EDUCATORS from the CD-ROM / An Archaeology
Primer
Basic Excavation
Steps
The five basic steps in any excavation
are:
- establish a grid of squares over the entire site;
- remove and screen the plowed soil from the top of each square;
- photograph and map the soil stains (called features), which
are visible beneath the plowed soil;
- excavate the features to
recover their contents; and
- when everything else is finished,
refill (or backfill) the excavated areas with soil.
In
the rest of this section, we will describe all these steps in more
detail.
 Students
engaged in various excavation tasks at Occaneechi
Town.
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