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Working in the Lab |
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| Laboratory work includes a number of vital tasks that help maintain the integrity of the cultural materials recovered from an archaeological excavation. | |||
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As artifacts come in from the field, they arrive as point provenienced individual artifacts, and as smaller finds in point provenienced buckets of sediment from the site. The buckets of sediment are wet screened to remove the sediment and then set out to dry. |
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Point provenienced individual artifacts (usually animal bones and stone artifacts) are washed by hand. |
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After the individual artifacts are dry, each is labeled with the site name and its unique site square and artifact number. |
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Smaller cultural materials (less than 2.5 cm) from the point provenienced buckets of sediment are recovered by sorting through what remains after the sediment is washed away during wet screening. |
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All labels from the field are checked against the computer database for verification and then reprinted. We use a barcode system and barcode scanners to verify the printed label information. |
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Every stone artifact larger than 2.5 cm is photographed and the images become part of the integrated project database, which will soon be available on-line. |
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