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Excavating Occaneechi Town
Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in
North Carolina
Edited by R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., Patrick C. Livingood, H. Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis
Copyright © 1998 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-8078-6503-6 (cd-rom & booklet).
README.TXT from the CD-ROM
Section 6: Notes to Educators 6.
Notes to Educators 6.1 The Electronic Dig 6.2 Excavating Modes 6.3 Enforcing the
Restricted Mode for the Electronic Dig 6.3.1
Modifying the Command Line in Windows 3.1 6.3.2
Modifying the Command Line in Windows 95
6. Notes
to Educators
It is hoped that this CD-ROM will be
used by educators from middle school to the college level to teach
students about archaeology and the Native American history of North
Carolina. An entire chapter of this CD-ROM, the Electronic Dig, has
been designed with this purpose in mind. Below is a description of the
Electronic Dig and how it might fit into a teaching plan. A
comprehensive guide to using the Electronic Dig, called the "Electronic
Dig Tutorial," is available from the Electronic Dig
screen.
6.1 The Electronic
Dig
The Electronic Dig chapter has two
components. The first component is a pair of tutorials: the
Archaeology Primer and the Electronic Dig Tutorial. The Archaeology
Primer allows students to become acquainted with basic archaeological
field methods and the kinds of archaeological remains found at Native
Americans village sites in Piedmont North Carolina. It contains text
written for students with a middle school level of comprehension,
photographs of archaeologists working at Occaneechi Town and other
North Carolina archaeological sites, and video clips of basic field
methods employed by archaeologists. The Electronic Dig Tutorial offers
easy instructions for students on how to use the Electronic Dig to
re-excavate Occaneechi Town.
The
Electronic Dig allows students to plan and undertake their own
excavations at Occaneechi Town, using the computer. The students start
with a blank grid which covers the site of Occaneechi Town. Then they
can select units to excavate. When the students give the command to
excavate, the software uncovers the units and provides students with
photographs, descriptions, and lists of artifacts that were actually
found when that unit was first excavated. Once an excavation unit, or
square, has been revealed on the computer screen, the student can then
excavate any archaeological feature located within it by simply
clicking on it with the mouse. Students can print a map of their
excavation and they can save in a file an inventory of all artifacts
found during their electronic excavation.
6.2 Excavating Modes
There are two
budget modes—unlimited and limited—for running the
Electronic Dig. The choice of which mode to use depends on the grade
level of the students and the sophistication of the course-work. The
unlimited budget mode allows the students to choose as many excavation
units as they wish. This mode is recommended for situations where
students are simply being encouraged to acquaint themselves with
archaeology and it allows them to explore the site without
restrictions. Conversely, the limited budget mode imposes limits on
what can be excavated by requiring the students to work within the
constraints of a budget. You must choose both an hourly wage and an
overall project budget. In this mode, it is important to plan the
excavation carefully since it normally will not be possible to excavate
the entire site. This mode is recommended only for serious
archaeological students and provides a context for learning about
archaeological sampling and inference.
6.3 Enforcing the Restricted Mode for the Electronic
Dig
The Electronic Dig is accessible at any time
from the report software as one of the major chapters of Excavating
Occaneechi Town. The reader can easily switch back and forth
between the Electronic Dig and the other chapters. However, in a
classroom or student exercise environment it might be desirable to
restrict access to only the Electronic Dig. This will guarantee that
the students complete the exercise before they see the map and
interpretations of the entire excavated site.
This restricted mode for the
Electronic Dig can be invoked from the command line in Windows. The
syntax for the command line requires that you launch the Excavating
Occaneechi Town software with an additional switch at the end of the
command line. Adding /ed permits access to only the
Electronic Dig with an unlimited budget. To further limit the student
to a specified budget, add /ed,x,y where
x is a dollar amount for a budget and y
is an hourly rate.
An icon
for the Restricted Electronic Dig is already provided in the Excavating
Occaneechi Town group. By default, it permits an unlimited budget. You
can further modify the command line in the following ways.
6.3.1 Modifying
the Command Line in Windows 3.1
Switch to Program
Manager and click once on the icon you wish to change. In this case,
highlight the Restricted Electronic Dig icon in the Excavating
Occaneechi Town window. Then choose File | Properties from the menu
bar. Next, look to the box labeled Command Line. After the command to
launch Excavating Occaneechi Town, which might typically look
like c:\ahomult\tb50run.exe c:\ahomult\ahomult.exe,
place a space and the command /ed. Finally, click on
the OK button with the mouse.
6.3.2 Modifying the Command Line in Windows
95
From the Start button
choose Settings | Taskbar. Then press on the tab labeled Start Menu
Programs and press the button labeled Advanced. The Exploring - Start
Menu window will appear. Click on the plus button just to the left of
the Programs folder (in the left pane of the window) to force all your
program groups to appear. Then click once on the Excavating Occaneechi
Town group. The program icons for Excavating Occaneechi Town should
now be visible in the right pane of the window. Click once on the icon
called Restricted Electronic Dig and then choose File | Properties from
the menu bar. Next, click on the tab labeled Shortcut. You can now
edit the command line which appears in the text box labeled Target. So
what might appear as c:\ahomult\tb50run.exe c:\ahomult\ahomult.exe can be edited to include the
/ed switch as discussed above (6.3). When you have
changed the line, press the OK button to exit from the first window
called Restricted Electronic Dig Properties, select File | Close to
exit from the Windows Explorer window, and press the OK button to exit
from the Taskbar Properties window.
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