7th January 2009, 05:51 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by gorilla
Maybe it's time we invented a on-site, techno-wizzard colour recorder (based on a digital camera)
Actually there is a technology which is even older....Less than 10 years ago, I worked on a site in the southern United States for a well known American museum. After a while I was a little concerned that we were leaving sections all over the place but no-one was drawing them. The site director assured me that all was well. Last week of the excavation a guy turned up with an easel and a set of watercolours and recorded the sections in much the same way that John Constable might have.
The best bit was his colour accuracy. He would take a sample of soil lay it on his palette and mix the required colour as an exact match to the soil. Of course US research archaeology, loads of dosh, so the sections not only looked like works of art....they were works of art.