What advancements and discoveries would you like to see in archaeology over the next generation?

Question

What advancements and discoveries would you like to see in archaeology over the next generation?

Answer 1

Just a couple things.  

How did they build the great pyramids?  The stones are huge, even by today's terms.  

Further, why were there so many pyramids built around the world in the aincent times.  Do a wikipedia search and they are everywhere.  China, Egypt, Central America.  Imagine, how could there be an international architecture style that is on the civilization scale that is thousands of years old.  

There is a lot of evidence suggestive of large civilizations that date back about 10,000 years yet we have little to no actual accounts of their lifestyles.  Would like to see some discoveries here.  

Answer 2

Because the Oceans have risen so drastically since the last Ice Age, I want to see undersea digs increase.  It is my hypothesis that most of the human migration (Ice Age) artifacts are under ~100 meters of water. I think the land bridge separating the Black Sea from the Mediterranean Sea flooded whole villages when it broke some 12,000 yrs ago.  We hypothesize that the earliest migrations took place along the African & Asian coasts through India & to Islands in South East Asia, but have been unable to uncover artifacts that would of course be under ~100 meters of water.  Beringa, the land bridge between Asia & North America was 1000s of kilometers wide & many artifacts are obviously under water there.

The Sea floors obviously hold the clues necessary for defining humanity's early history.  Because Humans typically built near the coasts, I hope we can explore them more fully.

Answer 3

Advancement: Deeper penetration ground radar.

Discoveries: As the retreating ice fields uncover land; to perform searches in places that have been undisturbed for 10,000 years.

Answer 4

Better sensing equipment that's noninvasive, to locate buried artifacts and structures.

Remote research devices to explore the sunken coastlines of North America and excavate  sites of the First Americans.