tDAR Draft Context Ontology

architectural complex

ceremonial site (e.g. non-residential, isolated cemetery)

building substructure (not earlier occupation; e.g. mound or platform construction)

overburden

size inches or mm

% screened (0% for unscreened)

artifact scatter (likely not from a settlement or isolated feature)

resource extraction/animal husbandry (e.g., canal, field or field house, quarry)

extramural (e.g. plaza in an open area or compound, roasting pit, canal, borrow pit)

feature contents (e.g hearth, burial, roasting pit contents )

flotation cloth

unknown screened fraction

isolated feature/structure (e.g., field house)

settlement (e.g., hamlet, village, town, city) [unknown presence of ceremonial structures]

intramural-domestic (e.g., pithouse, pueblo,ramada, including an atrium within a house)

trash

screened but unknown screen size

rockshelter/cave

--- settlement with ceremonial structures

intramural unknown (not recorded or can't tell if domestic or non-domestic)

construction fill (e.g., platform mound construction fill)

unscreened (hand recovery)

unknown

--- settlement without ceremonial structures

non-domestic structure (e.g. kiva, ballcourt, temple, palace, stairway, causeway)

occupation surface (on, in, or near) (roof as surface?)

unknown

short-term encampment (seasonal or shorter)

other intrasite context (discouraged)

other fill (aeolian, architectural collapse)

other (discouraged)

unknown intrasite context (e.g. trench or test pit in deposits with mixed, unrecorded, or otherwise unknown whether intra-or extramural)

mixed/disturbed deposit

unknown (unrecorded, uncategorized legacy data)

other deposit type (discouraged)

unknown deposit type