Stockton,
CA 
Lab
Specialist
Hi! My name’s Erica. I’m a lab specialist.
When the excavation is finished, the artifacts are taken back to the lab. Lab workers clean the artifacts and label them so we always know what part of the archaeological site they came from.
Mostly the excavators only find the artifacts in pieces. We spread out all the pieces and put the artifacts back together again with tape. It is like doing a huge puzzle, but it helps us understand what happened on the site.
Afterwards, the artifacts are packed away in boxes. We keep them so that future archaeologists can also study them.
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