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• <br />and troweling in 10 centimeter arbitrary levels. Soils <br />excavated in this manner were dry screened through ~ inch <br />mesh to avid the possibility of losing cultural material. <br />All materials located within these arbitrary levels, if not <br />found in situ, were recorded within the vertical range of these <br />levels. In situ materials were located with specific horizontal <br />coordinates and, whenever possible, utilizing the north and <br />east sides of the grid as reference. Specific vertical coor- <br />dinates were determined with reference to ground surface, <br />using the northeast corner as elevational datum. <br />Documentation within the controlled excavation was by <br />• <br />C 1 <br />grid maps, field maps, stratigraphic cartography, and by <br />photograph. The grid maps were useful only when in situ <br />material was located. The most standard form of documentation <br />was field notes organized by arbitrary 10 centimeter levels. <br />To supplement the arbitrary level information, profiles were <br />drawn and described of the wall within the test which exhibited <br />the most extensive deposition. In this manner, the arbitrary <br />levels were defined relative to the actual stratigraphy within <br />the site. All excavations were photographed. <br />5RT139 <br />5RT139, by far the largest of the two sites, was tested <br />by means of four lmeter by 1 meter, grids and four cutbank tests. <br />In conjunction with these standard hand excavation methods, <br />four backhoe trenches were prescribed as an effective means of <br />5 <br />