Jan 18, 2025
Total Station - Nervous ?
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Total Station - Nervous ?
It is late and im ill at home so hyper specific rant coming up!
Shout out to field archaeologists who measure, those who conquered the gps/rts/total station. You are the backbone that is making it into a science.
I dont know how it is in other parts in the world but here, there is sometimes a stigma that the measuring pal is not doing real archaeology or as heavy a job as other fieldworkers because we are not constantly churning the dirt.
I would also like to scratch in the ground and scream out when I find cool stuff but I have less oprtunity cuz I´m too busy screaming at people to put their finds in bags and write down where it came from. Cuz guess what, your cool complete ceramic vessel? Useless, without its exact provenance. Throw it on the dump if you cant be bothered to care about registration!
´oh no i shant touch the gps, i´ll break it' well you wouldnt if you would take time to learn it. Might also make my job easier if you knew what goes into it all. ´cant you measure any faster?´ no i can measure as fast as technology allows me. Either you wait or you figure out the site without any carthographic data? no? Thought so.
Couple weeks ago a coworker came to me saying ´as the one measuring a site, i feel as the lowest lifeform present on the dig. No one asks if it´s going well or if i need help or how much time i am going to need. They just want everything done at once as fast as possible even though they forget to properly label shit half of time´. And i could relate to that. Since very few people know what you are doing exactly, nobody cares or offers help. They are just digging, throwing open bigger and bigger patches of dirt so they can say they excavated the largest amount of m2. At the end of the day they put away their shovel and expect everyone to do the same but the measurer? Still gotta work cuz you kept going till the last minute and there 10+ m2 left to register and 5 finds have no labels. Can´t leave them here for every passerby to just pick them up. And measure the rest later? What if it rains? What if a treasure hunter shows up digging holes in the night destroying the level with nothing left to register?
Where would you be without accurate measuring and registration? Right, nowhere cuz you would have lost all scientific validation.
So please, shows some appreciation for your local gps-archaeologists. They work just as hard and are just as tired or cold as any other fieldworker. Show some patience if things go not as fast as you´d like and ask if there is anything that might help like changing the excavation partition or asking someone to precheck all finds and features so they don´t lose time, hold an umbrella if it rains on a finnicky touchscreen, etc.
Is there anyone here who can relate? How is it in other parts of the world, im really curious!
Hey, to the two guys working the total station trying to shoot in a point while cars kept driving past the prism, I saw you and I acknowledge your struggle.
Vallejo, CA Running around, tying Vallejo GPS grid points and setting control for the Flood and Waste Water treatment plant. I like how that big blue tank looks so surprised to see us.
Topography at dawn: The moon seen through my total station
Napa, CA Same place as yesterday. I'm kinda in love with this parcel. Like "If I had ten million dollars all of sudden" love it.
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