Evaluation first, data recovery only when the research design requires it. Context sheets, a Harris matrix, sieving as the design says, and an assemblage numbered in the field so the report and the boxes use the same catalog.
Evaluation asks whether a deposit is worth more work. Data recovery is what you do when the answer is yes and the license allows it. We do not skip the first question because a machine is already booked. Contexts are measured, photographed, and written so a later crew can continue the trench. Finds are numbered in the field. The report and the boxes have to use the same catalog.
What question the trench is allowed to answer, what mesh, what gets lifted, what stays. Signed before the first context.
Every context: sheet, photograph, measured drawing as the design requires. A Harris matrix that another supervisor can follow.
Finds numbered in the field. Bags and boxes labelled for the named archive. Duplicate numbers from earlier crews are flagged, not ignored.
A first note does not need a full brief. This is enough to start a scope.
Said here so it does not have to be discovered on the trench.
Regional places only. Site numbers stay in the project file.
The Ophel, Jerusalem. Open-area recording ahead of a drainage outfall through a historic scatter.
Kidron Valley slope, Jerusalem. Salvage recording on an eroding Kidron slope ahead of winter wash.
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. Evaluation on a Mount of Olives terrace. Sample first. Data recovery only if the answer was yes.
Yes. We attach as recording, finds, or both. The license holder stays the license holder.
Whatever the research design says. Quarter-inch is common. That decision is written before the first context, not invented on the trench edge.
Site or district, what you already know, and a deadline. We reply by email from Jerusalem.