Sorry if the flair tag is wrong, but as the title suggests, how do archaeologists find fragile items like these without damaging them? At first I thought they would need shovels or heavy equipment to get below the surface, this however seems like a risky method. Do they find the fragments then later piece them together? Do they use tiny tools and those little brushes all the way down to the extraction point?
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They often break some. The first ones they come to. Once they realize there are artifacts there, then they “dig” carefully, often using just brushes to avoid damage.
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