30th June 2009, 10:29 AM
Looks good, they seem to have a good range of sites and are 'selling' them in a good way for their audience ("You're the third person to touch that in a thousand years" "We've found the houses of the lost colonists").
Returning to the digger from a previous clip, it looks much more like they're using the toothed bucket to dig, but I suspect what they're really doing is using it to quickly remove quite a thick layer of topsoil/leaf litter/root rot/overburden/A-horizon, and then doing the 'real digging' by hand. Not strictly kosher in either country's archaeology, but better than taking the teeth into the archaeology! I bet they'll even sieve what the digger removes once it's been stripped.
Returning to the digger from a previous clip, it looks much more like they're using the toothed bucket to dig, but I suspect what they're really doing is using it to quickly remove quite a thick layer of topsoil/leaf litter/root rot/overburden/A-horizon, and then doing the 'real digging' by hand. Not strictly kosher in either country's archaeology, but better than taking the teeth into the archaeology! I bet they'll even sieve what the digger removes once it's been stripped.