How Archaeologists Read Dirt: What Opening an Excavation Unit Actually Finds
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How Archaeologists Read Dirt: What Opening an Excavation Unit Actually Finds

Three active excavation units — at the Alamo, a pre-Inca Peruvian hillfort, and a U.S. university — reveal the precise, irreversible craft behind every museum artifact, tracing a method invented by Flinders…

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