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Finally matched up the dirt layers at the Harris dig and the drawing made all the difference
Been digging at a site outside Tucson for 3 months and I was logging all my finds in a notebook, just scribbling where stuff came from. Last Friday my field school buddy showed me how to plot each layer on a simple profile drawing instead, and suddenly I could see the pit house floor at 60cm was cut into the layer below it, which I totally missed before. Felt like a dummy but also kind of proud I caught it at all. Anyone else switch from notes to drawings mid season and have it click like that?
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skyler_craig19d ago
Kept my notebook going the whole time honestly. Drawings are great for seeing cuts and fills but they lose all the stuff notes actually capture, like which square a point came from or how many flakes were in the screen. I tried switching to just profiles halfway through a survey last summer and lost track of three feature tags because the drawing showed where they were but not what I'd called them. What worked better for me was keeping the notebook and adding a quick sketch on the same page, so the layers and the labels live together. The drawing shows you the pit house cutting down, sure, but it doesn't tell you the Munsell color or whether that charcoal was in situ. Do you back up the profile with anything written or is the drawing your whole record now?
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