Preliminary GPS Work
GPS receiver on Echo Mountain
Today I dragged my father up to Echo Mountain to be my archaeology assistant because the Forest Service was kind enough to loan their Trimble GeoExplorer GPS receiver to me for the day. I placed 8 nails in the ground so that I can eventually tie the archaeology of the site to a real coordinates on the Mount Wilson quadrangle. This helps me keep track of where work has and has not been done, as well as allows me to conduct all types of spatial analyses on the artifacts and structures we are finding. During our initial survey, we plan on mapping all the artifacts we discover in our research zones onto this type of map.
