From survey to representation. Operation guidelines

Archaeological surveying undoubtedly belongs with the fields of research most elaborated in this domain of study. This is inevitably linked both to the scale of the problems tackled and – in more strictly 'physical' terms – to the fact that this operation is closely and indissolubly related to the continuous evolution of the archaeological excavation. The expectations related to archaeological surveying – to a much higher degree than to other types thereof – are much more complex and larger, ranging from a documentation of various materials found and/or of their traces to a diagnosing and differentiating the type of work to be done; from various types of finishing jobs to the documentation of different stages of destructive excavations. All this usually created ambiguous situations for the technicians in the stage of elaborating collected data and to those who did not participate in the work itself – in the stage of communication