The Team

	The Excavators The excavators, or 'diggers', work on archaeological sites, carefully digging away layers of soil. They work in the town or the countryside, wherever people lived in the past. The diggers sometimes find old objects or 'artefacts' buried in the soil, and this is what these pages are about.
	The Finds Assistant Artefacts are very fragile so the diggers give the objects to the finds assistants who carefully wrap them up, put them in bags and number them.
	The Conservator Conservators make sure that the artefacts do not fall apart. They clean the artefacts and look at them under a microscope. This gives us all sorts of clues about what they were and how they were made.
	The Researcher More clues about artefacts can be found by working out what they are made of, why they are certain shapes and how they were used. This is the researcher's job.
	The Illustrator Artefacts can be drawn or photographed so that people can appreciate them without actually seeing them. Drawings can be used to show what damaged objects might have looked like before they were broken or worn out.
	The Editor When we have learned all we can about artefacts, and we have pictures of them, the editor helps to make books, magazines or web pages about them.
	The Curators Artefacts will always need special care. This is true whether they are in a museum case or kept in a store. The curator's job is to make sure the artefacts are safe so they will be there for children in the future.
	You All the team is working to make these artefacts come alive and tell us about the past — and then we can tell you!