How do archaeologists know when to stop digging? Couldn’t there be many more dead sea scrolls if they just keep digging up more of the area?

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How do archaeologists know when to stop digging? Couldn’t there be many more dead sea scrolls if they just keep digging up more of the area?

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They can tell when they have reached the natural, undisturbed ground or bedrock, when they know there is no point in digging further because there can’t be anything there.

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