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I immediately wonder if someone wished to be remembered… thus unearthing this 3k years later grants their wish. Does anyone know how delicately these sites are

I immediately wonder if someone wished to be remembered… thus unearthing this 3k years later grants their wish. Does anyone know how delicately these sites are dug up? Ie: would we know if they had thrown straw or other degradable materials in and it had been covered up? Seems like a well being deeper than usual has the opportunity to have multiple ages of use and artifacts.

AlotOfReading 4y ago
[0] is a good example of the standard, expected quality of practice on a site. I've seen better and I've seen a lot worse. As for what you can tell from excavations, it depends. I excavated a bronze age burial in the UK where you could see the soil impression left by a bag holding remains in excavation, even though the bag itself had long since rotted away. In other cases you may recover the actual organic material, especially if it's been burned. Even in cases where you're not that lucky it still may be possible to tell through phytoliths or other analytical methods. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcT1vGyJzyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcT1vGyJzyg