16th August 2013, 05:13 PM
Hi
We don't process on site, we have a specific building back at the office for the environmental work (Dino knows it affectionatley as the tool store!). The processing procedures are not dictated by EH guidelines but rather what I think we can get from the samples ie small shell need smaller meshes etc. or what the PO would 'like' from the samples.
When I have people they are closely supervised until they are up to speed, I communicate the methodology that I and the PM have decided on. A lot of the processing sorting stage requires the confidence of having served time on procedures but most of the problems I have with 'temp' people is that they don't understand the relevance of environmental archaeology. Every time we have some new I try to educate them (some would say bore them to death) on the principles of environmental archaeology in order to contextualise the work they are doing for me and hopefully be able to go back on site digging and understand why they are taking the sample in the first place!
We follow the EH guidelines to 40l or 100%, however we have taken 100 litres, this is all dependant on the question!
The reports are done faster because I have the joy of instant communication with the POs.....
May post later as its finishing time :face-approve:
We don't process on site, we have a specific building back at the office for the environmental work (Dino knows it affectionatley as the tool store!). The processing procedures are not dictated by EH guidelines but rather what I think we can get from the samples ie small shell need smaller meshes etc. or what the PO would 'like' from the samples.
When I have people they are closely supervised until they are up to speed, I communicate the methodology that I and the PM have decided on. A lot of the processing sorting stage requires the confidence of having served time on procedures but most of the problems I have with 'temp' people is that they don't understand the relevance of environmental archaeology. Every time we have some new I try to educate them (some would say bore them to death) on the principles of environmental archaeology in order to contextualise the work they are doing for me and hopefully be able to go back on site digging and understand why they are taking the sample in the first place!
We follow the EH guidelines to 40l or 100%, however we have taken 100 litres, this is all dependant on the question!
The reports are done faster because I have the joy of instant communication with the POs.....
May post later as its finishing time :face-approve: