Talk:Excavation

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I would also suggest regional categories for this article, as european methodology differs from that of north american and other regions. I would be glad to do a write up on north and meso american methods. Actualities 21:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

That would be interesting. I suggest a description contrasting the methods used to dig into Monks Mound, the USA's largest mond. 207.193.87.114 19:38, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

no excavation? don't believe it!

--Yak 22:20, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] future technologies

can we have more info about possible future technologies, as well as info on the current state of the art, such as ground-penetrating radar? - Omegatron 17:14, Jan 2, 2005

This article is about basic excavation methods, for survey techniques and technology take a look at Cnyborg's excellent work at Archaeological field survey. adamsan 17:24, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I am currently in the process of trying to raise the standard of this article to at the least the same level as Archaeological field surveyBoris 06:58, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] references for excavation

The MoLAS archaeological site manual MoLAS, London 1994. ISBN 0-904818-40-3. Rb 128pp. bl/wh is a good starting point for references Boris 22:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] expanding links for a fuller understanding of stratigraphic relationships

there is not enough emphasis in the project in general concerning the use of stratigraphic relationships and phase as a logical methodology in excavation or interpretation Boris 22:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] just letting everyone involved know

article under heavy development and modification also mass rationalization of entire methodology category at hand, being rather unilaterally active but my editing behavior is dictated by an overview of the editing and contrib frequency of other contributers and a window of opportunity I have with my own personnel time.. i may not be able to contrib in a months time or so due to other commitments. sorry for stepping on toes etc.Boris 10:00, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Historical development

my efforts are better spent concentrating on pulling the methodology aspects together across the category:methods and principles in archaeology (i hate that title btw) rather than write a concise history of excavation that someone else can source and do a better job than me anyway. Boris 09:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe useful pix

The following pictures may be useful to be used in the article. They are taken 67 years after excavation.

--Soroush83 14:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

I suggest this article be moved to Excavation (archaeology), since it looks to be essentially about archaeological excavation. -Eric talk 12:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)