Dig Sites

* Earth Prime

## Overview

Each dig site is overseen by Dig Site Command which is run by the University Earth's Dig Site Federation.

## Earth Ruins

### Fringe Sites

Fringe sites are the outer safer areas of the main sites, but not all main dig sites have a Fringe site. Fringe sites are safer but most of them are rated as hazard sites, all of the same precautions have to be taken with restricted portal access. London Fringe site is one of the safe dig sites without portal restrictions.

This is the area where school history clubs come to start learning to be archaeologists, for many young students it is a way to help them determine if they want history as a career and if they want to be a practical historian or a theoretical historian.

It is also a place for the hobbyist teams to come when they can. A hobbyist team is usually someone that loves history but went into a different field for their career or some of the history teachers that still want some practical experience.

There is no age restriction on who may work on the Fringe sites, the requirement is that the person must receive their Gold Certificate in safety before they can work on the fringe sites, normally they are at least 14 but Jarra was 11 and some of the other students mentioned in the prequel novellas were 12 and 13.

### Main Sites

The main sites vary in degree of difficulty. Some of the sties are so dangerous that they are restricted from foundation classes, the California Land Raft, Earth America is one of these sites.

## Dig Teams

There are at least five roles on a Dig Team, and two Dig teams on each Research team.

* Tag Leader - The tag leader is the only person to enter the site when it is being worked. They direct the work, tag rocks and guide the heavy lift operators.
* Tag Support - The tag support keeps the tag leader safe, locking a lift beam onto the tag leader's impact suits at the tag point on their backs between the shoulders and keeping the lift beam locked on to the tag leader's suite at all times that they are in the work area. If the tag leader is in danger, the tag support use the beam to lift them out of danger.
* Sensor Sled Operator - The sensor sled operator watches the sensor net for possible interesting finds and dangers, hitting alarms as necessary. The sensor net is produced by four sensor probes at the corners of the work site.
* Heavy Lift Operator - The heavy lift operator a heavy lift sled with beams to remove the rubble that the tag leader has tagged. Usually, two or three heavy lift operators work together on the same work site, thus they have to be careful that the beams don't intersect.

## Named Sites

* Berlin
* California Rift
* Chennai
* Chicago
* Eden
* Jaipur
* London
* Moscow
* New Tokyo
* New York
* Paris Coeur
* Sydney
* Toronto
* Zulu

## See also

* Dig Site Federation
* Berlin, Earth Europe
* California Land Raft, Earth America
* Eden, Earth Africa
* London, Earth Europe
* New York, Earth America
* Zulu Dig Site

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl. 2012. Pages 67-68.

### Bibliography

* Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1) (2015)
* Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2) (2014)
* Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (2015)
* Earth Prime (2020)