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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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