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pericles_plato5 karma

I graduated 6 moths ago with an Antro degree here in the states. I've always heard y'all go really fast when excavating. We save practically every artifact, while y'all can pick and choose. Is this true? also, Just so I can compare the two different areas, What techniques were used in the dig? Like do y'all schnitt, slowly taking the level of a unit down,etc.

Sorry, I know little about British archaeology.

pericles_plato3 karma

That's very reassuring. I was thinking about applying to grad schools in the UK, so i guess it won't be that bad of a transition.

pericles_plato3 karma

Well, we always bag pretty much everything. If there is thirty bricks we don't keep thirty bricks, only a sample of them. Depending on the project, boss, and the artifact we keep artifacts smaller than thumbnail. Like in one of my field school when I was in school we kept everything, literally everything. Though it was a Mississippian village excavation in North Carolina. There has been instances where there is too many artifacts to store.

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Awesome, did they all go back to the states after they graduated, or did some stay?