ANT-2221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Total Station, Plumb Bob
Document Summary
Hand recovery: gentle, witness exact context, only larger objects. Dry screening: smaller objects, inexpensive and portable, potentially damaging (friction) Wet screening: better than dry, gentle, very small objects, washes and size-sorts, expensive, non-portable, requires water source. Flotation: very gentle, very small objects, delicate plant remains, washes, expensive, non-portable, requires water source, light fraction (floats, heavy fraction (sinks) Documentation: no matter how we excavate, we are destroying the contexts, we must document, observations of contexts, observations of the matrix (soil color, etc. , how we did the archaeology. For the writing of our report and to preserve the evidence.
