From personal experience as a fieldworker, I can testify that some
Swedish-trained archaeologists dig obviously stratified sites by purely
arbitrary levels, and record nothing of the deposits found between living
surfaces. As a result, it is not surprising to find demolition debris in
the same box with construction debris of the same building.

The technique I observed on a very important site in 1989 was identical in
every respect to the description of Pitt-Rivers' techniques that appears in
the little blue Harris book.


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