About this module:

This module was created for the The Tao River Archaeological Project, based at Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA. The module has been designed to document the archaeological excavation and sampling in the area of Tao River in China. The Tao River Archaeological Project investigates technological changes in Northwest China during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age, at Qijiaping, Guanghe, Gansu. The data structure of this module is partially based on the Boncuklu Excavation module and the PAZC Excavation module, but implements own specific workflows (i.e. the FCN sampling).

Authorship:

This module was co-developed by Prof Rowan Flad at Harvard University and Petra Janouchova and Adela Sobotkova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded in 2016 - 2018 by Harvard University.

Date of release:

June 2016, May 2017, May 2018

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.5 (Android 6+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

This module is part of the FAIMS Demo library on our publicly accessible Demo server (http://demo.fedarch.org/).

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

Locus & Stratum & Feature based complex recording of excavation workflow
FCN Sampling strategy (sample-bags of various materials found within the Trench or within the Locus)
Munsel Soil Colour Chart
on device created photos, photograph logs, sketches etc.
coordinates from internal GPS
validated fields with user observations
controlled vocabularies
language translation into Chinese (Q&A Prof Flad)
connectivity with mobile Zebra printer, QR code and label generation
automated calculation of absolute coordinates and elevations from manual trench measurements

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

Locus-based complex excavation
Archaeological sampling in a grid
Printing sample labels with a mobile thermal printer

Contact info:

For more details about the The Tao River Archaeological Project please visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/flad/projects. If you have any questions about the The Tao River Archaeological Project , contact Prof Rowan Flad at rflad@fas.harvard.edu.

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at enquiries@fedarch.org and we will get back to you within one business day.