That I have also noticed, yes; Adrian Chadwick had a paper on U. Sheffield's
web-journal a few years back where he was very vocal against this very
practice: people seeming to think that all you had to do was draw your
matrix & you were finished, not considering that the matrix was not an end
in & of itself, but rather a tool for further analysis...
Similar situation with databases & GIS in a lot of cases, too, I think: all
you have to do is build one for the purpose of storing data, without
considering that maybe you might want to query it...

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I have noticed that many archaeologists use Harris Matrix's but often forget
the critical phasing and interpreting part of the process.