STUDENT DAYNOTES AMHEIDA 2008

Name: Adam Prins Supervisor(s): Anna Boozer and Bruno Bazzani Date: 2/2/08

□ Excavation □ Small Finds □ Topography □ Photography □ Ceramics

└►Area: Room(s): X Data entry

What I have done:

This morning I continued digitizing backlogged day drawings from the 2005 Amheida season. At 9:00 am I began by digitizing a day drawing of Room 2 in Area 1.3. I finished at 10:30 am.

At 10:30 am I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 1 in Area 1.3 from the 2005 Amheida season. I finished at 11:25 pm.

At 11:30 pm I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 3 in Area 1 from the 2005 Amheida season. I finished at 1:00 pm.

At 2:00 pm I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 2 in Area 1 from the 2005 Amheida season. I finished at 2:55 pm.

At 2:55 pm I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 3 in Area 1 from the 2005 Amheida season. I finished at 4:00 pm.

At 4:10 pm I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 1 in Area 1.3 from the 2005 Amheida season. I finished at 5:05 pm.

At 5:05 pm I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 3 in Area 1.3 from the 2005 Amheida season. I finished at 5:50 pm.

At 5:50 pm I began digitizing a backlogged day drawing of Room 3 (a second drawing of this room done on the same day) in Area 1.3 from the 2005 Amheida season. After dinner, I finished at 8:20 pm.

What I have learned:

Since today I only digitized day drawings, I was able to put my new skills to real use. This past week I have mostly been digitizing complex final drawings, but because there is a significant backlog of day drawings from the 2005 and 2006 Amheida seasons, I have been asked to digitize them so the Dakhleh Oasis Project can have all the site plans (no matter how insignificant) digital and ready for publication. These daily drawing are much simpler and more straightforward than the final draft site plans, so I was able to complete eight of them today—with a great deal of efficiency—when it would have otherwise taken this long to complete one or two of the final site plans. Without the experience of digitizing complex drawings, these simpler plans wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

Problems I have found:

I had trouble scaling some of the day drawings. The AutoCAD software seems to sometimes be a bit glitchy when attempting to scale an image to the proper ratio. After much trial and error, I successfully scaled the images and figured out a method to get around the glitch.