Is single context recording the only way?

[GnomeKing]

oh by the way, dont forget the Dolland Matrix :face-stir:

[barkingdigger]

especialy in the lithosphere-biosphere interaction zone (where archaeologists most commonly reside)

Is that a fancy new word for "the pub", then? :o)


Harris certainly isn't a god (at least in other folks' minds...), but his publication of applied common logic still has merit. The problem comes when we stop applying common sense during the process and try to stick to "derived" procedural rules simply because they are written down. After all, the thrust of a matrix is that things can be placed in some semblance of sequence, depending on sufficient evidence, and not some fixed set of detailed rules. If things are equivocal, then you need to get creative and indicate it on the matrix instead of trying to "force" the contexts into a spurious but tidy linear hierarchy. It's this continuous application of common sense (which ain't nearly common enough...) that tends to get overlooked.

[Marc Berger]

I am not sure that in some parts of the DUA and associated institutes you would be allowed to live if you don't recognise that the laws have been given by a god. Having looked at it again it seems that we also have to incorporate the laws of horizontality , continuity and blessed of all The Law of Stratigraphical Succession: A unit of

archaeological strati-fication takes its place in the stratigraphic sequence of a site from its position between the undermost (or earliest) of the units which lie above it and the uppermost (or latest) of all the units which lie below it and with which the unit has a physical contact, all other superpositional relationships being redundant.The Law of Stratigraphical Succession: A unit of archaeological strati- fication takes its place in the stratigraphic sequence of a site from its position between the undermost (or earliest) of the units which lie above it and the uppermost (or latest) of all the units which lie below it and with which the unit has a physical contact, all other superpositional relationships being redundant.

I cant find any reference in the Principles to the use of arrows but if there are any laws couldn't they be used like this to show non gravity orderliness.


I calls it Bergers arrow.

[P Prentice]

I am not sure that in some parts of the DUA and associated institutes you would be allowed to live if you don't recognise that the laws have been given by a god. Having looked at it again it seems that we also have to incorporate the laws of horizontality , continuity and blessed of all The Law of Stratigraphical Succession: A unit of

I cant find any reference in the Principles to the use of arrows but if there are any laws couldn't they be used like this to show non gravity orderliness.


I calls it Bergers arrow.

i call it the wrong way round

[Crocodile]

I calls it Bergers arrow.

Sorry! I don't get it. I think you have just drawn a cock and balls on the BAJR forum, or if you turn it 90 degrees, maybe an elephant.

[Marc Berger]

Sorry Crocodile It was never my intention, I have spent a bit of time struggling to upload different image formats, Bajr had to help me out, content and size was left unedited. I agree with you that a collapsed ceiling plaster and paint would be considered as a one deposit/event. Having looked at Harris again I must say that I don't see much need for the horizontal and continuity axioms and the stratigraphic succession seems to be a superposition sandwich. And yes Mr Prentice you could put the arrow the other way round but my convention is to suggest the direction of superposition. If the painting was on the side wall you could maybe put the arrow to the side of the context.....

[barkingdigger]

Gotta be careful of the old DUA "turn-key" system of strat - it only really works so easy if everything is a dumped deposit aided by gravity! (Best way to break out of "matrix by rote" doldrums and to stimulate applied intelligence is to try matrixing up a complicated old building! Nothing's ever completely "above" or "below" in a physical sense, and sometimes the later features are simply punched through the middle of older ones!)

Close the stuffy manuals, open the logical mind, and stop drawing rude bits on Mr Bajr's lovely forum!

[Jack]

I'm a bit lost by this drawing too.

In a stratigraphical matrix its as simple as things that are earlier are lower down, things that are later are above.

Its the order in which the events happened rather than what they are physically above and below is important.

So from bottom to top.

Wall trench cut, wall built, backfill in wall trench, first layer of render/plaster, second layer etc, first layer of paint....etc

[GnomeKing]

single context recording is pretty meaningless without single context excavtion ... .(put that bloody mattock down!!!and be a bit less 'efficient', you might even learn something...)

[Jack]

but you can still single context dig with a mattock!.......:face-stir:.......depending on what it is