Data Sheets

Square supervisors at Tel Cobel recording data
in notebooks

The data sheets pictured on this page should be used by your excavation teams to record  ALL data excavated during their mock dig.  This includes:  features such as an architectural locus or burial;   earth layers;   photographs; pottery buckets;   artifacts found, etc.  Click on the thumbnails below to get the full-sized, downloadable sheet and then reproduce as many as needed for your teams.  You will need multiple copies of each type of data sheet for each team--especially earth locus sheets, pottery tags, and pottery sheets.

[Note:  Do not conduct your excavation without proper recording of data. Archaeology is a process of destruction (in that we can never make a dug site exactly as it was before we started), so we have an ethical obligation to teach students to make proper records of ALL aspects of their excavation. ASOR Outreach Education can not condone conducting classroom excavation simulations that neglect to do this. editor]