From summer 2014 to spring 2016 I worked as the survey manager and GIS technician for the Motul de San Jose Regional Archaeology Project. I spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 mapping archaeological features and excavations in Guatemala while doing the GIS work during the off season.
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In order to map excavations, I operated a tablet connected to a high-end GPS receiver, operated by my associate, and worked with the supervising archaeologist to annotate each recorded point according to their operation’s nomenclature. The following images show how I chose to map archaeological structures at three spatial scales in order to provide both the smaller details and broader context of each excavation.
Spatial Awareness 