29th April 2012, 06:19 PM
I totally agree with Chiz with regards to interpretation, hand drawing gives an intimacy and understanding of the object or feature being drawn.
Dino's trowel skills are all skills (with one or two exceptions) that I had to find for myself. Being told or shown how to do it would have saved time and mistakes. I highly recommend the learning to use both hands for trowelling and no one should be shifting barrows or shovelling without proper instruction on manual handling.
Everyone sees colour slightly differently and it is sometimes very striking what people don't see. Improving general powers of observation would do a great deal for want to be archaeologists. There has been more than one occasion when I have found people, who I presumed were experienced, unable to see the slight changes in colour and soil texture that indicate different contexts and also unable to tell natural from disturbed.
Dino's trowel skills are all skills (with one or two exceptions) that I had to find for myself. Being told or shown how to do it would have saved time and mistakes. I highly recommend the learning to use both hands for trowelling and no one should be shifting barrows or shovelling without proper instruction on manual handling.
Everyone sees colour slightly differently and it is sometimes very striking what people don't see. Improving general powers of observation would do a great deal for want to be archaeologists. There has been more than one occasion when I have found people, who I presumed were experienced, unable to see the slight changes in colour and soil texture that indicate different contexts and also unable to tell natural from disturbed.