30th October 2008, 03:08 PM
Windy said
"However, I reckon it'll be a long time before site assistants are seen filling in context sheets on palmtop computers"
and
Hal said
"So I reckon it'll be another good few years yet before we have paperless archaeological sites."
Paperless sites have been around since the 1980s ie West Hesleton.
The technology was tried and largely abandoned. Similarly write top computers were tried in the late 1980s. Drawing with total stations started in the late 1980s and is still with us.
Have to say that I thought everybody had a mobile phone by 2003.
I write this as a break to writing up an experiment on the paperless recording of a grave yard. Worked very well - but paper has its place. A paper plan is much better in the field that a computer.
Peter Wardle
(Sorry to go off topic to archaeology of the past and present!)
"However, I reckon it'll be a long time before site assistants are seen filling in context sheets on palmtop computers"
and
Hal said
"So I reckon it'll be another good few years yet before we have paperless archaeological sites."
Paperless sites have been around since the 1980s ie West Hesleton.
The technology was tried and largely abandoned. Similarly write top computers were tried in the late 1980s. Drawing with total stations started in the late 1980s and is still with us.
Have to say that I thought everybody had a mobile phone by 2003.
I write this as a break to writing up an experiment on the paperless recording of a grave yard. Worked very well - but paper has its place. A paper plan is much better in the field that a computer.
Peter Wardle
(Sorry to go off topic to archaeology of the past and present!)