archaeologists

Archaeologists must question their sources in order to gain appropriate knowledge from them. Some questions archaeologist may ask include; What is it? What is it made from? What size is it? Where did it come from? When was it made and by whom? What was its function? Does this source contain evidence about the topic? What is its significance? How has this source been interpreted by others? What else was found with it? What does …

…drawn? Once the evidence has been found and he site sufficiently excavated archaeologists begins to form answers to the questions who? when? where? and how? posed by the remains found. The archaeologist will begin to form a hypothesis. It is much easier to do this if the artefacts are found together at the site. If the location of the find is now known then it is much more difficult to date and authenticate the artefact.