The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
6. How are sites chosen?
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Aren Maeir [+]
Bar-Ilan University
Aren M. Maeir is a professor of archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel). He has published extensively on the Bronze and Iron Age of the Ancient Near East, including most recently Berlejung, A., Maeir. A. M., and Schuele, A., Wandering Arameans: Arameans Outside Syria - Textual and Archaeological Perspectives (Harrassowitz, 2017).
Description
How archaeologists find archaeological sites and on what basis do they decide where in these sites they will excavate are questions that lay people often ask. How can an archaeologist know where to excavate and find such interesting artifacts?