30th September 2012, 11:29 AM
hi martin, there was a really good Interpreting Stratigraphy conference in 2001 on exactly the topic of interpretation during excavation and reflexsive methodologies (which I think Hodder coined at Catal Huyuk). The conference wasnt published unfortuntaely but Steve Roskams collected papers and edits were done (I believe) in the hope of an internet publication. There were presentations from a lot of projects that were doing similar things at the time. I would contact Steve if you are interested: I'm sure he would forward the papers.
On the topic, I kind of think it was a bit of a phase that we went through, kind of recognising that all recording is interpretation laden. After this I got the impression that people were happy to move on so long as we realised that we had just interpreted a ditch as opposed to objectively just digging and recording it! One thing I have always thought about Framework is, was the amount of innovation directly proportional to the amount of money the project had?! Perhaps less invention these days (certainly in a commercial context) is a product of tighter budgets?
On the topic, I kind of think it was a bit of a phase that we went through, kind of recognising that all recording is interpretation laden. After this I got the impression that people were happy to move on so long as we realised that we had just interpreted a ditch as opposed to objectively just digging and recording it! One thing I have always thought about Framework is, was the amount of innovation directly proportional to the amount of money the project had?! Perhaps less invention these days (certainly in a commercial context) is a product of tighter budgets?