These students spend their time both at the site and in the lab. The field supervisor, or archaeology profession is usually there to assist the students. Usually they are stored in labelled boxes in laboratories or museums. Sometimes scientists come back to study them again, especially if new methods are invented to help analyze the artifacts. Some artifacts are used in museum displays.
Scientists write reports about their finds and what they mean about the past.
Many of these reports are complicated, but sometimes the archaeologists write magazine stories for magazines like Archaeology or help make videos about the sites. Archaeology seems pretty complicated. Doing archaeology is complicated. But the archaeologist has help from lots of other scientists. Find out about the experts who help with archaeology.