CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: James Deetz, Heinrich Dressel, Hispania Baetica
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Lecture #14 feb 4th recovering and recording of the evidence . Trowel: need a good tool that will cut through many different forms of layers and will not bend. Scalpers are good for fine and delicate work. You brush a lot while excavating because you always needs to have a clean vision of the soil and texture you are digging. You need to keep brushing away the soil you just moved. Photos: take photos from different angles, have a black board with the time, put a symbol that points north, place a ruler. Old school methods work anywhere, anytime and they are cheap. Old days, you would use a pre-existing map. Place three spots that are easily identifiable. You then use distances and angles to link a point that wasn"t on the map. Starts with what you know and then you add to the map.