You are a district collector of in Tamilnadu state. On your visit to a remote village you come across some mounds which are worshipped by the locals. Having some exposure to archaeology, you consider to check the mound and from the first glabce you establish that the mound can throw some great deal of evidence .What would you consider as action/observations among the following are good/correct?
1) Vertical digging will be better option than horizontal digging as it will give a good chronological sequence of material culture.
2) Though curious, your hopes are not high because climate can be detrimental to the state of preservation in this region.
3) You are considering to do radio carbon dating as few fossils of animal and humans are found at the site.
4) Radio carbon dating , as you recall , consideres C14 carbon isotope which is a radioactive element , found in all living objects and usually neutralized by absorption of C14 through air and food in living beings, however upon death the decay starts at an uniform rate with a half-life of around 4558 years.