How long does it take to excavate an archaeological dig site?
In movies about archaeology and paleontology, you don’t see much about fundraising time tables. Indiana Jones may have a ticking clock because he’s in a race against the Nazis, but he’s not working on the schedule that his funding dictates. In fact, Dr. Jones never seems to worry about the budget at all. Real life archaeologists dream about scenarios like this, but unfortunately they’re met with strict deadlines that are usually set according to funding. How long it takes to excavate an archaeological dig site all depends on how much cash a dig team has to get the job done. If it were up to the diggers, they’d probably never put the shovel down, but, like everything else, science costs money. In fact, to even begin most archaeological excavations, funding has to be in place. And the amount of money the project has in place typically determ
