Dr. Edward Cecil Harris schrieb:
> EMBATTLED COLLEAGUES:
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> >
> >My good friend, Marley Brown, has insisted that I leave the solitude of my
> >verandah couch and the beckoning green sea and pink beaches to have a look
> >at the heated discussion ON STRATIGRAPHY on HISTARCH.
> >
 
sounds like a fair swap
 
 
> >
> >All of you have been talking about digging: I will be waiting and reading
> >to see if one of the Harris Matrix advocates can come up with the real
> >issue in the discussion, for it is that issue against which there no
> >winning argument from the opponents of the Harris Matrix and its
> >associated methods.
> >
 
could it be one of phasing, and/or those troublesome interfaces? i thought i
started the whole thing off by venting my spleen (yet again) about how bad
things are out here in a land which will this time not be mentioned... the
initial issue was quality of excavation techniques and documentation and
methodologies and whatnot -
        if you are hinting at interfaces, i'd say you were being somewhat
mischievious, seeing as the matrix is only a tool for recording stratigraphical
relationships, and the interfaces are part of your general theory of
archaeological (as opposed to strictly geological) stratigraphy...?
        in which case my answer to your riddle would be: finding and exposing
old surfaces...
        got a drawing i'll have to send you: 3D effects taken from a profile:
sort of reconstruction: would be better done with a "surface" program, but i'm
only working from someone else's profiles (rewriting someone else's report:
usually they complain someone else has to correct my & katja's german, now i'm
rewriting someone else's report, katja will correct my grammar, and then someone
 
else will correct her rewrite... go figure), so as good as it gets: but kind of
interesting to see the whole thing peeled away from top to bottom, and all the
surfaces coming out - will include it with all the other stuff stacked here
awaiting mr xerox - katja has a report due monday, i've been doing her drawings,
 
and... sure i mentioned this already
 
> >Meanwhile, back to the verandah and the cold Amstel (Light of course).
> >
 
ah, yes, but the dutchies themselves only brew that for foreigners who don't
know any better... forget what we used to drink after excavations: something
from off in the southeast of the country - might have started with "V", but then
 
i might be confusing it with veltins - had paul in a kayak the other weekend (2
ago now) and even sort of swimming - first pony ride on saturday: typical:
apparently scared shitless and not enjoying it one bit while riding, but once
you get him off of it he wants to get right back on...
        anyway...
 
> >Harris, of the Matrix
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> Dr. Edward Harris
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