[nick123567]

>there is no 'modern excavation'

They describe the modern technique in the UPenn announcement...

Rather than digging according to architectural construction phases, the Lagash Archaeological Project is using an approach championed by Pisa’s Pizzimenti, who excavates by microstratigraphic layers, thin lens by thin lens horizontally, across a wide swath, “like doing very careful surgery,” Pittman says. “Just 50 centimeters down, we were able to capture all of this. We were happily astounded.”

[namaria]

That's a refinement of practices that are decades old. Comment I responded to seemed to imply we got evidence of this tavern due to some recent breakthrough, while before we'd be doing mostly work on temples and translation. Which is false, we have slice of life findings since the beginning of archeology, and ongoing efforts on prominent buildings and bodies of text.