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Introduction
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The development of a piece of land for public or private use (e.g. to build a road or a building), entails the disturbance or removal of the subsoil.
Long before building begins, and to avoid its being interrupted, work is undertaken to ascertain if the land concerned contains traces of human occupation: this is the evaluation. Its aim is to detect, characterise, plot and date archaeological deposits. Typically, 5 to 10 percent of the surface threatened is trenched using a hydraulic digger.
Long before building begins, and to avoid its being interrupted, work is undertaken to ascertain if the land concerned contains traces of human occupation: this is the evaluation. Its aim is to detect, characterise, plot and date archaeological deposits. Typically, 5 to 10 percent of the surface threatened is trenched using a hydraulic digger.
Development of a site after a positive evaluation.