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review. contributions to archaeological interest ...excavation
is merely a matter of shifting away the soil and subsoil with a
spade or shovel; the titles of such admirable and widely read
books as Leonard Woolley’s Spadework (1953) and Digging Up the
Past (1930) and Geoffrey Bibby’s Testimony of the Spade (1956)
might appear to give credence to that view. Actually, much of
the work of excavation is careful work with... What made you
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