Any ideas on how physics and archaeology are related or what I can to to make it interesting?

Dr. dig responds:
A good topic to pursue that links physics and archaeology would be the archaeological uses of remote sensing techniques. Remote sensing is a way archaeologists study ancient sites without actually excavating them.

Some ideas to pursue might be: metal detectors and the way archaeologists use them; the use of cameras and other instruments designed to detect different wavelengths of light, such as infrared; the use of satellite photography; magnetometers and resistivity detectors that can determine reflected images from electrical currents and magnetic fields of archaeological features beneath the soil.

The result of advances in research into radioactivity has benefitted archaeologists who use thermoluminescence to date pottery as well as burnt flint. Potassium-Argon, fission-track, electron-spin resonance and uranium-series disequilibrium all depend on radioactive decay, and so are useful techniques that archaeologists use when dating ancient artifacts.

In recent years, remote sensing has become more important to archaeological reconnaissance. Infrared has been added to the photographic repertoire, and a whole range of electrical, magnetic, and sonic instruments have been borrowed from the earth sciences and modified or developed specifically for archaeology. Sonic instruments have proved particularly useful in underwater detective work.