The AIA and ARCHAEOLOGY’s Interactive Digs allow you to follow the progress of excavations around the globe. Participating projects post fieldnotes, personal journals, photos, videos—everything you need to feel like you’re part of the team. Start digging in today!

In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. [1] An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied. These locations range from one to several areas at a time during a project and can be conducted over a few weeks to several years.

2025年1月3日 · During your time on site, you will dig for artifacts, clean them, record them, study them, and learn how to preserve them. You will also learn how to map digging sites, an important skill in archeology and paleontology.

Follow an excavation project as it happens. Interactive Digs are an opportunity to see an excavation unfold in real time. Archaeologists post regular updates from the field, answer questions, and describe life on a dig. For more digs, please see InteractiveDigs.com.

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Excavation in archeology is a process of digging into the ground in search of finding artifacts and hidden structures. The artifacts and structures can be bones, pottery, tools, jewelry, buildings, walls, and roads. The sites for excavation, also called “digs”, are chosen after research and survey by archeologists.

Archaeologists dig up and study the physical (material) remains of people who lived long ago, including their public architecture, private houses, art, objects of daily life, trash, food, and more, to answer ques8ons about who the people were, …

2024年11月18日 · Where to Dig? Most archaeology involves digging. Winds and floods carry sand, dust and soil, depositing them on top of abandoned features and artifacts. These deposits build up over time, burying the remains. Sometimes catastrophes, like volcanic eruptions, speed up this burial process.

2025年1月23日 · The biggest dig at Pompeii in a generation is working to expose nearly an entire block of the ancient city. Archaeologists are…

When it comes to digging, a project may start with a backhoe, a shovel, or a pickaxe to help cut through the thick topsoil and to quickly remove layers of soil that lie over the archaeological context.