Practice question · Put in order
Order the single-context recording routine for one layer.
- Excavate the context, bagging finds under its number
- Photograph and draw it to scale
- Define and clean the context’s surface
- Reveal the next context below and repeat
- Record levels and complete the context sheet
Hints
- Recording must precede removal.
- Each cycle converts one deposit into archive before destroying it.
Show the answer
- Define and clean the context’s surface
- Photograph and draw it to scale
- Record levels and complete the context sheet
- Excavate the context, bagging finds under its number
- Reveal the next context below and repeat
Why
Record, then remove, never the reverse. Each cycle converts one depositional event into archive before destroying it; the loop repeats until natural subsoil.
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