Multiple Choice
By recording the provenience of all artifacts encountered in situ during Gatecliff's excavations, the archaeologists were trying to:
A) document differences in artifact sequences through time.
B) obtain information that would allow them to reconstruct the activities that took place on discrete living floors.
C) determine the depth of time represented by the deposits in the rockshelter.
D) speed up the excavation process without losing important information.
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