Explainer: How do archaeologists discover forgotten ancient monuments?
Friday, September 11, 2015 - 08:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The popular image of an archaeologist is someone who spends most of their time on their knees painstakingly excavating sites. Although excavation is still one of archaeology's principal research methods, it is not without problems: it is slow, expensive and can cover only relatively small areas of a site. Most problematic of all, it destroys much of the very evidence we rely upon.