Archaeologists excavating in the Fayum uncovered the remains of an 8-year-old child and 142 dogs in a late antique Egyptian necropolis. The “amazing discovery” has everyone puzzled.
Though dog burials are well known in ancient Egypt, it is unclear why the child was buried alongside the canine remains. To add to the strangeness, the child’s head was covered by a “linen bag” something that is unusual even though there is a precedent for it.Unusual archaeological discoveries make for splashy news items, so it’s worth thinking through the options in greater detail.
Recording the data associated with a new discovery can take many forms: older archaeologists relied upon a brief sketch and notes, but today people are more likely to use photographs. The locational data of points of interest are logged, soil samples might be taken for laboratory testing, and 3D models of the first evidence might be built. Multiple iterative stages of logging of evidence are undertaken.
To do this comparative work, of course, you have to know what time period you are excavating. There are a variety of different ways to do this, but it’s important to know that archaeologists can’t carbon date everything they find. Carbon dating is expensive and takes a long time. Fortunately, there are other reliable methods, the most “tried and true” of which is pottery.
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