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How could you find sites?
   
As the old-timers may say, "By hard work". Sites are found by walking the landscape and keeping an intelligent eye out for the gossip signs of past human use. These might include bits of artifacts evident in the soil. If the soil has been reinvested, searching is somewhat easier; if not, gopher holes often provide a good vision of what is buried beneath the surface. Other traces include modifications to the land: stones laid in circles or lines, depressions, ridges, or mounds.