dig sites
Where artifacts emerge
Dig sites are locations where archaeologists or paleontologists excavate to uncover buried artifacts, fossils, or structural remains.
The term emphasizes active investigation—a dig site is not just a place where things are buried but where systematic digging is underway or planned: The team spent three summers at the dig site in Jordan.
Also called excavation sites.
- middenHistorical domestic refuse pile
- pottery shardsBroken ceramic fragments
- stone toolsShaped rocks for tasks
- bone fragmentsBroken pieces of skeleton
- ancient ruinsDecayed structures from antiquity
lost city · excavation · test pit · burial site · stratigraphy · core sample · geochronology · artifact · trowel · carbon dating · dinosaur remains · ancient civilizations · sedimentary layer · trilobite · rock strata · sifting · grid · site map
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- ancient sitesPompeii, Stonehenge, pyramids, Colosseum, Giza
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- archaeologyexcavation, archaeologist, archaeological digs, digs, archaeologists
- British PrehistoryStonehenge, stone circles, henges, hill forts, burial mounds
- hands-on exhibitstouch tanks, touch screens, water tables, building blocks, pulley systems
dig sitesmuseum
Public exhibit space
museum collection · exhibition hall · archive · repository · display case
dig sitesconstruction sites
Active building locations
building sites · landfills · conservation zones · burial grounds