Linked Provenience-Feature Class

The linked provenience category is an organized way to describe how a feature was excavated, and where artifacts were found within that feature. The categories are numerically based in order to systematically define excavation strategy and the execution of that strategy. Each vertical and horizontal strategy is denoted with a corresponding number---for example horizontal excavation strategies are broken down into whole study unit, locus, segment, half, strip, quadrant, etc. (Wilshusen et al. 1999: 153). This dataset is also used to record the general dimensions of an observed feature, as well as the current existing measurements and the three main materials utilized in the construction of that specific feature. Further explanations of the grid system used to segment an excavation unit are available in the metadata, as well as in Wilshusen et al. 1999: 152-5.