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Writing the UGR
When writing the UGR, the sequence between thematic and unit books is actually inverted. The first to be written are the digital books relating to excavation units, each of which has its own website.
Each unit book follows closely the progress of the excavation and is "written" on a daily basis by a number of contributors whose observations are entered in the record, without exception.
This alternative sequence does not, however, apply just to the moment of the production of data: it is also a structural sequence. The unit books are by no means to be seen as just containers of data, as databases. They provide a well-structured presentation of the unit seen as an entity with its own physiognomy.
While serving as autonomous entities, the unit books are at the same time closely tied to the thematic books, which draw on them as they are being written and afterwards, just as the unit books refer to them in their analysis of the data.
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Examples
As an example, we may look at unit book A16.
An excavation unit is generally limited in size: A16 is typical having 8 4x4 m squares.
But the amount of data is very large, including for instance 347 features and 61,082 ceramic items (vessels and sherds).
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detail of one page
MZS: list of beads, setting among units
AP: courtyard
TGL: list by field number
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