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What Does An Archeologist Do?

posted December 1, 2008 - 12:35am
What Does An Archeologist Do?

Several discoveries have lead us to discover about the past. How the world came to be. Man has been studying many things of the past to know more about almost all things. By looking at the past and studying the things about the past we can learn many things.

An archeologist are someone that reconstructs the past by studying buildings and objects that have survived. Sometimes historical remains are astonishingly well preserved.

For example, the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum which overwhelmed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Many tiny aspects of Roman life were preserved, including graffiti on the walls. These preservations are very rare.

Archeologist usually need to make a painstaking reconstruction, carefully excavating the remains of ruined buildings. Sometimes only the post-holes of a wooden building are left, but even they can provide useful clues about the type of building.

The oldest archeological remains comes from the Stone Age. The remains of flint tools and weapons have survived, together with bones that show which animals were hunted and eaten.

Surely the job of an Archeologist may be very painstaking but it is surely very exciting and rewarding.

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