/spit-excavation-blue-mountains

Arbitrary units (spits) excavation workflow

Primary LanguageShellGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

About this module:

This module was created for the excavation of the Bleichert Ropeway Tension Pit, located in the Blue Mountains National Park, organised by the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, Katoomba, Australia. The module has been designed to document an entire workflow of archaeological excavation, using an arbitrarily assigned measurement of depth and extent (spits).

Authorship:

This module was developed by Adela Sobotkova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by the Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP) NSW Department of Industry 16805/00 aimed to support innovation and investment in the New South Wales in 2016 and 2017.

Date of release:

September 2016

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.2 (Android 5+)

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:

  • controlled vocabularies
  • validated fields with user observations
  • coordinates from internal GPS
  • photo capture on device

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

  • archaeological excavation using arbitrary units
  • field school or hands-on archaeological training

Contact info:

For more details about the excavation of the Bleichert Ropeway Tension Pit please visit webpage of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute at http://www.bmwhi.org.au/.

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.

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