Archaeological excavation is dubbed "digging" by archaeologists. No matter the excavation of sites or tombs, the whole excavation process is always dealing with soil, that is, removing the fill other than tombs, tombs or relics. Archaeological excavation refers to the excavation approved by the administrative department of cultural relics for scientific research.

According to the excavation plan, the activities or work of investigating, exploring, discovering and excavating cultural relics in cultural relics burial sites, ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs. According to the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Cultural Relics revised by the NPC Standing Committee on June 5438+February, 2007, all archaeological excavations must be submitted for approval.

No unit or individual may excavate cultural relics buried underground. The law also stipulates that archaeological excavations should be registered and properly kept, and handed over to the state-owned museums, libraries or other state-owned cultural relics collection units designated by the cultural relics administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government or the State Council.

With the approval of the administrative department of cultural relics of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government or the administrative department of cultural relics of the State Council, units engaged in archaeological excavations may keep a small number of unearthed cultural relics as scientific research specimens. No unit or individual may encroach on the cultural relics excavated by archaeology.

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1, whether it is conducive to the protection of cultural relics must be based on this. Cultural relics discovered and unearthed in archaeological excavations cannot be copied, and once they are destroyed, they cannot be remedied. Whether these relics and relics can be effectively protected is the first problem to be considered in archaeological excavation management.

2. Take archaeological excavation in coordination with economic construction as a long-term strategic policy. Cultural relics have been discovered anytime and anywhere in socialist economic construction, and many important cultural relics have been discovered in cooperation with economic construction in the past 40 years. Therefore, it is necessary to implement the policy that is beneficial to both capital construction and cultural relics protection, and do a good job in cultural relics survey and special investigation.