This module was created for the Proyecto Arqueológico Zaña Colonial, based at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. The module has been designed to record the workflow of context based archaeological excavation at three reducción sites in Zaña area, Peru.
This module was co-developed by Parker VanValkenburgh at Brown University and Adela Sobotkova, Shawn Ross and Brian Ballsun-Stanton at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.
[Development of this module was funded by the ARC LE140100151, FAIMS: Transforming archaeological research through digital technologies.
July 2015
FAIMS v2.0 (Android 5+)
This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).
This module is part of the FAIMS Demo library on our publicly accessible Demo server (http://demo.fedarch.org/).
- Locus & Locus Group based complex recording of excavation workflow
- Descriptive guide with instructions for users
- Relationships between individual layers (Locus, Locus Group)
- Artefact & Special Find recording
- Munsel Soil Colour Chart
- On device created photos, photograph logs, sketches etc.
- Coordinates from internal GPS
- Validated fields with user observations
- Controlled vocabularies
- Language translation into Spanish
- archaeological excavation using contexts / loci
For more details about the Proyecto Arqueológico Zaña Colonial please visit https://vivo.brown.edu/display/pvanvalk#, or contact the director Parker VanValkenburgh (parker_vanvalkenburgh@brown.edu).
If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at enquiries@fedarch.org and we will get back to you within one business day.
