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The National Park Service also adapted from the Arizona State Museum a set of descriptors of provenance (and provides abbreviations for each). It is argued in the paper that combinations of terms capturing directions, parts of a house or property, mathematical terminology, and geological descriptors, would address these various descriptors. The list is provided here, with some brief commentary [in square brackets] on certain terms.
These are generally either directions (in three dimensions) or places within a house or property. The latter should be captured under NB. Others are designated.
Above mean sea level AMSL [Need to capture sea level.]
Alcove ALC
Antechamber ACHBR
Area AREA [General term?]
Ashpit ASHP
Associated with ASSOC
Back BK
Backdirt BKD or BKDT [Means the excavated dirt, assumed to be of little further use]
Bedrock BDRK [Designate.]
Below datum BD [Fixed starting point.]
Below ground surface BGS [Designate surface?]
Below mean sea level BMSL
Below surface BS
Block BLK [????]
Bottom B
Burial BUR
Cob pit CP [outhouse after moved?]
Core sample CORE [Need sample under math class X. Ditto Core]
Column sample COL
Control CTR
Controlled surface collection CSC
Control CTR
Cremation CREM [designate]
Cross section CS [designate]
Datum DAT
Depth D
East E
East half EH
Entry ENTRY
Excavation unit EU
Exterior EXT
Feature FEAT
Feet FT
Fill FILL [designate]
Find FIND
Fire pit FP
Floor FL
Floor fill FF
Fort FORT
Front F
General plow zone GPZ
General surface collection GSC
Grid GRID [under math class X]
Grid square GSQ
Hearth H
Horizon HOR [designate]
House HSE
Humus HU [organic component of soil]
Interior INT
Kiva K [chamber used by Pueblo males for ceremony]
Layer LA [designate]
Left LT
Level LV
Metal detector test MDET
Meter M
Midden MID [dunghill or garbage heap]
Mile MI
Mound MD
Natural level NATLV
North N
North half NH
Original ground surface OGS
Ossuary OS container/room for bones of dead
Outline OL
Piece plot PP [????]
Pit P
Pit house PTHS
Plaza PL
Plow zone PZ
Post hole PH
Post mold PM
Power auger test PAT [how to capture?]
Profile PROF
Present ground surface PGS
Quadrant Q [under math class X]
Quadrant northeast QNE
Quadrant northwest QNW
Quadrant southeast QSE
Quadrant southwest QSW
Outlining trenches TROTL
Right RT
Room RM
Section SECT
Shell concentration SC
Shovel test ST
South S
South half SH
Stratigraphic survey SS [study of strata; connect to levels above?]
Stratum STRA
Structure STRU
Structured shovel test (controlled) SST
Subfloor SF
Surface SURF
Square SQ
Terrace TERR
Test excavation unit TU
Test pit TP
Test square TSQ
Test trench TT
Top T
Transect TS [means cut through]
Trash pit TRP
Trash mound TM
Trench TR
Trimmings TRIM
Trowel test TT [trowel should be classified under tools]
Unit U
Village site VS
Lost provenience UNKNOWN
Unstructured shoveltest (uncontrolled) UST
Unstructured surface collection (uncontrolled) USC
Wall WALL
West W
West half WH
Zone Z [capture]
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