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 find a site where they think there is artifacts then they pretty much gently hand dig until they find some artifacts. Each shovel of dirt may be thrown on a shaker table to sift out all the soil leaving just the stones and artifacts….as they gently hand dig and uncover more, they will use small hand shovels and paint brushes to gently remove the soil leaving just the artifacts. Its a very tedious process.
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