Data recovery, also referred to as excavation, is the treatment most associated with archeology. Data recovery is the principal means by which archeologists gather information about the past from below the ground surface. While site discovery methods such as archival research, surface inspection, subsurface testing and sampling, geophysical prospecting, and predictive models may provide evidence of buried features, the only way to verify the presence and characteristics of subsurface data is through excavation (Ashmore and Sharer 1996:94).




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