Originally posted by SLAYER69
What I find really amazing is that they built all of what they had by hand and did not have beasts of burden like the OX or Horses.
My question becomes if they built on top of older civilizations structures are archeologist afraid to dig deeper being afraid of damaging whats on
top?
Or do they tunnel into these site to find even older relics?
They tunnel, getting down to the first constructions is always a key objective.
Archaeologist work in system where finding new stuff is rewarded, not finding anything interesting or old hat leads to little grant money and teaching
archaeology in a community college in Iowa.
So yes they look deep. When we were clearing sites we always put in test pits- and often went down to limestone 'bed rock' or the water
table-sometimes we went lower but going thru water is hard work.
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