It's usually BCE for "before current era" or, rarely, BPE for "before present era." Feel free to chime in if your old school gang would protest this, [info]katya23.)
Nope, my guys use BCE. They even use GPS! ;) Most of the archaeologists here got their degrees in the early 80s, so they have some concept of breaking away from the old ways (we are carefully not going to mention postmodernism). Unfortunately, most of their profs and mentors are/were EXTREMELY old school. So these guys are willing to move forward, but think of where they started. And then there's the one that can't even use his computer. =)
I might have to tell the story of the recently retired archaeologist/museum director who showed up in the collections department I worked for with a box labeled "cranium." His comment? "I was cleaning out my storeroom." GAH!
BCE and GPS...woo! (Hee. You are so cute.) I wasn't picking on your team, btw. I just know that some folks do hold to the vocabulary they were taught and have used most of their careers, just as I know that a lot of archaeologists would be more open to new analytical approaches if their budgets permitted.
I might have to tell the story of the recently retired archaeologist/museum director who showed up in the collections department I worked for with a box labeled "cranium." His comment? "I was cleaning out my storeroom." GAH!
*headdesk*
Oh, please. If there's more to this story, do share. That sort of thing...yeah. Not as uncommon as we'd like to believe.
Hey, feel free to pick on my team. We younger ones do it all the time. =) We were just having a conversation about if there was a way to link ArcMap to Access, so that some of the more computer illiterate among us could enter data without completely screwing up our site and survey shapefiles
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We were just having a conversation about if there was a way to link ArcMap to Access, so that some of the more computer illiterate among us could enter data without completely screwing up our site and survey shapefiles.
Hee! Oh, the joys of Luddites diddling with the ArcGIS software suite. Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about in terms of the software and the shit that can go wrong with the shape files. Most of my GIS and GPS work was with some ass-awkward CAD program they had at A&M when I was in grad school there. We had ArcMAP at SOU and my friend, Jen, was a goddess with it. (She actually wound up working for the Coquille tribe, in fact
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There's just so much out there and with my far ranging interests I could easily spend all day surfing around looking for good sites, and you've just saved me that trouble and the wasted time. {{Hugs}}
Very cool. I really hope to make my LJ into something folks can use as a handy tool for finding fun and potentially useful links related to the kind of stuff that, you know, doesn't show up on the mainstream OL news outlets. I'm so happy it's saving you time and entertaining you along the way. *g*
Part of my reason for setting up this LJ was so that interested folks such as yourself could always have an easy way to come back to links they don't have time for right away. When you eventually have a chance to settle in with this, do let me know what you think. I love Burnt City so much. *g*
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Nope, my guys use BCE. They even use GPS! ;) Most of the archaeologists here got their degrees in the early 80s, so they have some concept of breaking away from the old ways (we are carefully not going to mention postmodernism). Unfortunately, most of their profs and mentors are/were EXTREMELY old school. So these guys are willing to move forward, but think of where they started. And then there's the one that can't even use his computer. =)
I might have to tell the story of the recently retired archaeologist/museum director who showed up in the collections department I worked for with a box labeled "cranium." His comment? "I was cleaning out my storeroom." GAH!
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I might have to tell the story of the recently retired archaeologist/museum director who showed up in the collections department I worked for with a box labeled "cranium." His comment? "I was cleaning out my storeroom." GAH!
*headdesk*
Oh, please. If there's more to this story, do share. That sort of thing...yeah. Not as uncommon as we'd like to believe.
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Hee! Oh, the joys of Luddites diddling with the ArcGIS software suite. Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about in terms of the software and the shit that can go wrong with the shape files. Most of my GIS and GPS work was with some ass-awkward CAD program they had at A&M when I was in grad school there. We had ArcMAP at SOU and my friend, Jen, was a goddess with it. (She actually wound up working for the Coquille tribe, in fact ( ... )
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