17th October 2011, 01:29 PM
GnomeKing Wrote:PP : you might not say you are a scientist - I say that I am
(but apparently its all 'just' interpretive - i hope you don't have any Stratification to deal with....)
Dino : i like your attitude - logical methods and problem solving are a key to (good) field archaeology.
i have been dealing with statification for 30 years and i will always maintain that no two diggers will draw exactly the same lines on any section and the differences are compounded the more complicated the section
we start interpreting sites before a shovel hits the ground and we carry on interpretting every trowel stroke
on a gravel site many diggers wont differentiate between contexts until they draw the section because it is often impossible to dig gravel stratigraphically (unless the context includes other differentiators) and in dino's ditch hypothesis - you may not even be close if you havent emptied the entire ditch
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers