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This careful process of removing soil layer by layer allows archaeologists to uncover artifacts without damaging them or losing contextual information.
Difficulty: Easy- Excavation
- Prospection
- Demolition
- Mining
This massive canal system at Angkor, recently mapped by LiDAR, supplied water to nearly a million people and may have failed due to climate change.
Difficulty: Medium- The Mekong channels
- The Tonle Sap network
- The Baray reservoirs
- The Khmer aqueducts
This 17th-century English ship, wrecked near the Isles of Scilly in 1707 with Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell aboard, carried naval payroll that remains largely unfound.
Difficulty: Hard- HMS Association
- HMS Royal Anne
- HMS Eagle
- HMS Romney
This method of dating archaeological sites uses the known pattern of annual growth rings in trees to establish precise calendar dates.
Difficulty: Medium- Palynology
- Seriation
- Typology
- Dendrochronology
This technique analyzes ancient DNA from bones and teeth to determine migration patterns and population relationships in lost civilizations.
Difficulty: Hard- Bioarchaeology
- Isotope profiling
- Paleogenomics
- Osteological analysis
This legendary city of gold was sought by Spanish conquistadors throughout South America, but was never found.
Difficulty: Easy- El Dorado
- Atlantis
- Shangri-La
- Camelot
This formal model predicts that foragers should leave a resource patch when the marginal return rate drops to the average for the environment.
Difficulty: Hard- Diet breadth model
- Central place model
- Marginal value theorem
- Ideal free distribution
This ancient Incan city sits high in the Peruvian Andes and was never found by Spanish conquistadors.
Difficulty: Easy- Cusco
- Chichen Itza
- Machu Picchu
- Teotihuacan
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