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Imagine for a moment that you have a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle - but no picture to tell you how it's supposed to look. Then imagine that the puzzle was buried in your backyard many years ago by someone who lived in your house before you were born, and you've just dug it up again. The pieces are all scattered around; some of them have gotten wet and the picture is gone; others are caked with mud; many others have been eaten by gophers or carried away by kids digging in the dirt, never to be found again. Now take what's left of the puzzle pieces into your kitchen, clean them off, count them (of the original 10,000, say there are 4,000 left), lay them all out on your table - and try to put the puzzle back together, to see what the picture was.
Welcome to archaeology...
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