Digitizing Archaeological Datasets

This project spanned two weeks and was rather intensive. Scans of survey grids from the Oaxaca Valley Settlement Survey Project were georeferenced and the spatial data from the surveys were digitized into attribute tables of shapefiles. The task of georeferencing was made difficult by the poor quality of the scan of the survey grid and also by difficulty in finding a suitable basemap of the Oaxaca Valley onto which to rectify the grid. Eventually a solution was found, though, and the grid was tied in. Afterwards, the separate grids for land cover and collection surveys were tied into the grid and then their data was digitized. Finally, each grid was laid out with land cover and survey results and a map was created, or three in the case of Grid N2E3, which had 3 grids of survey collection data due to the density of occupation.

Grid Locations

N2E3a

N2E3b

N2E3c

N2E4