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My understanding of archeology is that it's a slow, careful painstaking business involving surveys (often from the air or through study of relative elevation doing ground surveys) to find likely spots and slow uncovering withing a grid. Why is it then, that so many newspaper reports are about archeologists "stumbling" onto various finds? Are they extra clumsy as a proffession and prone to falling into their own pits? One would think such extreme clumsiness would hamper them in the careful painstaking work that is their calling.