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Students excavate a refuse-filled pit at Occaneechi Town
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- Date created
- 1998–2003
- Duration
- 0:51
- Location
- North Carolina
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- 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 10)
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Video of students excavating a refuse-filled pit at an archaeological dig at Occaneechi Town, near Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Transcript
Narrator: Archaeological features are carefully dug using trowels. These students are removing the dark fill from a shallow pit. Loose soil from the bottom of the pit is removed with a metal scoop. Later, this dirt will be waterscreened to recover small artifacts.
Student 1: Yeah, it might be a pipe-stem, huh?
Student 2: A pipe-stem of something? Found a turtle shell earlier.
Narrator: Larger artifacts from the pit are removed and saved for study back in the lab.
