25th May 2007, 11:01 AM
Troll
Like you I have been on plenty of sites overseas and seen a few good directors but also many useless ones. Yes, Taverna Cat is right in that different sites can require adaptive methodologies, but a crap methodology is a crap methodology regardless of what sort of site it is used on.
On a separate thread we are discussing the relative merits of Single Context Recording and Single Context Planning - on some overseas sites the use of any context-based recording system would be a great step forward, as would the acceptance that a Wheeler-type box excavation system has severe limitations and can be adequately replaced by open-area excavation (especially if you have a decent set of diggers who are more used to this anyway). When digging with Germans (in or outside of Germany) it would be useful to be able to dig stratigraphically, rather than in clearly defined horizontal spits which pay no attention to cut features.
Beamo
Like you I have been on plenty of sites overseas and seen a few good directors but also many useless ones. Yes, Taverna Cat is right in that different sites can require adaptive methodologies, but a crap methodology is a crap methodology regardless of what sort of site it is used on.
On a separate thread we are discussing the relative merits of Single Context Recording and Single Context Planning - on some overseas sites the use of any context-based recording system would be a great step forward, as would the acceptance that a Wheeler-type box excavation system has severe limitations and can be adequately replaced by open-area excavation (especially if you have a decent set of diggers who are more used to this anyway). When digging with Germans (in or outside of Germany) it would be useful to be able to dig stratigraphically, rather than in clearly defined horizontal spits which pay no attention to cut features.
Beamo