Back to top: The primacy of excavation units
The excavation unit
The most important difference vis-à-vis the current standard is that we produce in effect a final publication of each excavation unit. What is normally reserved for a prelimnary report, and what is then produced in a truly "preliminary" manner, i. e., very selectively, is here given in full.
It is in the form of a browser edition, hence not as either a data base or as a summary narrative. It contains the totality of the data as observed during the excavation, but in the form of a running argument tightly interwoven with the data.
The excavation unit website is thus the building block of the entire system. Each unit website is tightly interrelated to each of thematic websites: these provide the synthetic interpretation at the sitewide level, and integrate the details of the unit websites into this larger picture.
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