The School of Jack

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Seems to me that in the world of jack there is no such thing as copyright but a misery of sheep, sheep dogs and unit directors. The finding somebodies else’s edges is probably the main manifestations of what is basically a system of abuse which at various time combines age, gender, and disability and probably race. What your guide should say is that if somebody wants to find somebody else’s edges the first party should first record the feature to the limit of their excavations, and remove the spoil, and that the next finder of edges then starts with a new set of context numbers and context sheets signed to their name, pre-records and then starts on their personal quest recording . Yes they may have the first party watch their deftness but the second party has no idea why it was that the first party lost their vision of the “edge”. There are a whole heap of halo effects let alone events which may have radically or subtlety the affected the deposits. It basically comes down to being a splitter or a lumper and the confidence to go into a new context without finalising the recording of the previous one.

The looking for the edge is the very basic of context archaeology and probably of being an archaeologist. Its bloody sad that anybody new should not understand that and see that that’s the whole process.
To my mind if you have observed the spectacle of a supervisor reaching in and scrapping away without the digger having recorded the feature to their limits then you are part of the abuse too. This includes me. In fact

I've always worked on the principle that it was done to me plenty of times, and I've spent the last 30 years getting my REVENGE! any cheap victory...

Is the very basic of how ifa based archaeology finds its sheep and trains them into sheep dogs.