The site's lead archaeologist, Seamus Caulfield, of University College, Dublin, has likened this phenomenon to "a slow-motion Pompeii."
After conducting several experiments the lead archaeologists on site found that floating a soil sample twice (double flotation) with complete drying between flotation's solved the problem.
One of the lead archaeologists compared excavating the peat to trying to dig chocolate mousse under water.
Dr. Coe served as the lead archaeologist for Town Creek Indian Mound for over 50 years.
The site's lead archaeologist, Professor Jon Boyle, was attacked during a fiercesome sandstorm and sent to the hospital to recover.
Stephan is the lead archaeologist into long-term research into the settlement, which was founded ca. 1200.
However, the lead archaeologist, Carlo Zoccoli, has offered to give our readers a private tour under the church, where an archaeological treasure trove awaits.
According to an early interpretation offered by Jüri Peets, the lead archaeologist at the site, the ships and the dead are of Scandinavian origin.
Excavation began in 1972 and was intermittent until Ehud Netzer's, the lead archaeologist, death in 2010.
Around this time DD receives word that the lead archaeologist, Kishore, on his current project (an excavation in a small hamlet called Sangramgadh) has mysteriously disappeared.