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After watching >9000 hours of time team the impression I get is that they tend to take what they believe is a representative sample of a site, and leave the rest for future teams.

Time Team would often go "This site has been dug before BUT we get to put our pits down in this untouched area" or "OMG Totally new site but we dont want to wreck it for the next guys"

Etc etc/

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Modern archaeology intentionally leaves some significant pristine area to preserve the site for the future, perhaps future methods, perhaps just to leave some stones unturned forever. It's a pretty easy conclusion to arrive at given glaring mistakes of archaeology past.

That’s a wonderfully responsible approach to archaeology. I hope we continue practicing those lessons learned from past mistakes.

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