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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).


ONLINE HELP from the CD-ROM / Finding an Excavation Context

How to Navigate to an Excavation Context


The Excavations chapter allows you to browse all the basic excavated data (i.e., maps, photographs, descriptions, artifact lists, etc.) obtained during the archaeological investigations at Occaneechi Town. The reader should refer to the "Archaeological Background" article in the Background chapter and to the Archaeology Primer for more help on interpreting and understanding the excavated data. The purpose of this help page is simply to show you how to find information about a specific context.

The easiest way to find a specific excavated context is to click on the Excavations button from the Main Menu. This will call up a map of the site that shows all contexts. Each context can be accessed directly by simply clicking on it with the mouse. There also are alternative ways of navigating to an excavated context which are described below.

Selecting a Context with the Site Map

When you choose Excavations from the Main Menu or from the menu bar, you will see a large map at the left that is color-coded by type of excavation context. Excavated squares are blue, excavated features are red, and remnants of structures are brown. All other postholes and soil disturbances are black.

In addition to the overall site map, there are four higher-resolution maps which each show one-quarter of the site. These higher-resolution maps also identify each feature and structure. You can move between these two map resolutions by using either of the following methods.

  • On the right of the screen is an icon of the entire site labeled Select Quadrant. Click on one of the quarters of the site to view that quadrant of the map or click on the button below the icon, labeled Main Map, to see the overall site map.
  • Each corner of the overall site map has a Zoom In arrow for accessing the higher-resolution map of the corresponding quadrant, and one corner of each higher-resolution map has a Zoom Out arrow for accessing the overall site map. Click on these arrows to move between the quadrant maps and the overall site map.


Navigating to an Excavated Context

Navigating to an excavated context from the overall site map, or from one of the higher-resolution maps, requires two steps.

1. First, select the kind of excavated context you are interested in by clicking on one of the three context types (i.e., squares, features, or structures) listed to the right of the map.

2. Then, select a specific context on the map. To do this, move the mouse cursor over the map. As it passes over contexts of the type you selected, the cursor will change to a magnifying glass and the name of the context the mouse is currently over will appear in the Choose Context field. When the cursor is a magnifying glass you can click the left mouse button once to access information about that context.

Selecting an Excavated Context by Name

There is another way to select an excavated context if you already know what the name of that context is. Click on the Context List button located on the overall map page just below the Context Type list. This feature can also be found in the menu bar at the top of the screen under Go To | Choose a Context.

Either of these buttons will call up the Archaeological Navigator box, which contains a list of excavated contexts on the left and a list of context types on the right. First, select the type of context you are interested in (i.e., squares, features, or structures) and then highlight the name of a specific context by clicking the left mouse button once. Once you have chosen the context, press the OK button.

Selecting a Context with a Hotlink

When you are reading text that refers to a specific excavated context, the name of that context will be designated as a hotlink. The name will be colored blue, and clicking on it will send you to information about that context. See Using the Text Chapters for information on using hotlinks.


For more information on viewing an excavated context once you have navigated to it, see Browsing the Excavations.

See the Contents of ONLINE HELP for a listing of more help topics.


From Excavating Occaneechi Town, a CD-ROM for Windows / ISBN 0-8078-6503-6 / $45.00 / Published for the Research Laboratories of Archaeology by the University of North Carolina Press

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