How Do Archaeologists Figure Out What Ruins Were? | The Cliff Mine Archaeology Project

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Explains archaeological method on a real 19th-century copper-mining site with the project's researchers.

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How archaeologists worked out what the ruins at Michigan's Cliff Mine were, from survey to excavation.

Video by Alexis Dahl, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of Everything Runs on Rocks, Stories of Places, Michigan Science & History

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