18th July 2013, 01:10 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:................<snip> In Jacks world if you don't draw every stone presumably using a plumb line and grid and then taken a photo you are not an archaeologist,......
Well not a good one.........
Unitof1 Wrote:The curators/ like to chuck the phrase and justification " preservation by record " but they don't like remind everybody that that record is about an interpretation. Preservation by interpretation.
Now your getting it. Thats why you should photo/ video stuff.
Unitof1 Wrote:Not do a half section because that is whats in the wsi and then it must have a picture even if that picture doesn't show anything. As an archive its not sustainable and can only lead to global warming and we don't want that do we.
A photo always shows something.....even if its just the fact that you dug a half-section and the edges look real (or overcut)