21st November 2005, 01:49 PM
Achingknees,
Some of what you say sounds just like a well-organised approach to traditional stratigraphic excavation.
My understanding of the planum method (I may have it wrong, because I have never knowingly seen it practiced) is that it is specifically applied over whole areas, ignoring vertical stratigraphy. By definition, then, if you excavate the homogenous fill of a large pit in a series of spits, you are not applying the planum method, because you are working within the cut of the pit.
If, on the other hand, your spits extend beyond the edges of the pit and you are recording by planning the newly exposed limits of the pit after each spit, then you are applying the planum method.
Have I misunderstood, or is that about right?
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
Some of what you say sounds just like a well-organised approach to traditional stratigraphic excavation.
My understanding of the planum method (I may have it wrong, because I have never knowingly seen it practiced) is that it is specifically applied over whole areas, ignoring vertical stratigraphy. By definition, then, if you excavate the homogenous fill of a large pit in a series of spits, you are not applying the planum method, because you are working within the cut of the pit.
If, on the other hand, your spits extend beyond the edges of the pit and you are recording by planning the newly exposed limits of the pit after each spit, then you are applying the planum method.
Have I misunderstood, or is that about right?
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished