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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
ContextHow 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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