Zeitah data milestone

When proceeding through the dig season, I am aware of many notable milestones:

1. First day of 'real excavation' (as opposed to cleaning off weeds from the off-season)
2. First Pottery Reading Sheets entered into the database
3. First Material Culture log entries entered into the database
4. First report created of the bucket readings
5. The "end of third week" doldrums
6. Delivering the Lecture on Archaeological Computing
7. Last day of excavation
8. Last day the volunteers are with us
9. All Material Culture logs entered
10. All Locus Sheets scanned and entered
11. All Registered Pottery Drawings scanned and associated
12. All Registered Pottery Sheets scanned and entered
13. Final Bucket reports distributed
14. Final MC reports distributed
15. All Pottery Reading Sheets entered
16. Pottery percentage reports created
17. Final report on computing submitted
18. Final Backups
19. Packing up
    

We are now at milestone 14. This is actually a pretty good place to be now: I figure we're one day ahead of my previous years' schedule, mainly due to the help of Joanna, Madeleine, Helen and Jessie. We have 40 Pottery Reading Sheets left to enter, 21 Registered pottery descriptions (3 pages each), and then a bunch of scanning (about 15 Top Plans and a Section Drawing, and the final Locus and Bucket summary sheets for each of the remaining 4 squares.)

I will need to do some data analysis and generating the factual portion of my report (spreadsheets, databases, etc) and then think about recommendations for next year for my verbal report.

Back to work - hoping to pass milestone 15 shortly!

John