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Troweling the subsoil surface
About this video
- Date created
- 1998–2003
- Duration
- 0:24
- Location
- North Carolina
- File
- Flash Video
- License
- This video copyright ©1998. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original video housed by Research Laboratories of Archaeology
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- Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer: Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig. (Page 7)
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Video of students troweling the subsoil surface at an archaeological dig at Occaneechi Town, near Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Transcript
Troweling is a very important part of any archaeological excavation. The students shown here are shaving the subsoil surface with sharpened trowels to reveal archaeological features. This student has just exposed the faint stain of an ancient wooden post.
