Why are notes and records important anyway?
Because the process of doing archaeology itself is destructive. When archaeologists dig a site, they destroy the archaeological record. Notes and photographs are a way to preserve all the information that would otherwise be lost.
Later, in the lab, archaeologists can use the notes to analyse the artifacts, food remains, and features that were encountered during excavations.
Using the notes and observations made during excavations along with descriptions of stilt houses taken from early, written documents, and information from Nuxhalk Elders who remember seeing stilt houses when they were very young, a reconstruction of the houses can be made.
So, what did these stilt houses
look like anyway?
So far, we've come a long way from just seeing a mound on the ground surface. Archaeologists use other clues discovered during their excavations to find out lots of other things about ancient sites.
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