Taskmaster/Benefactor: (Adjusting to) Digital Media in the Field

"Demanding taskmaster, generous benefactor--that names the experience of the Lahav Research Project''s adaptation of (and adjustment to) digitalequipment and digital recording in the field. The 1999 excavation season at Tell Halif, in which we made extensive use of digital technologies to recoverand record archaeological data, demonstrated the highly valuable and viable role these technologies can play in archaeology; the experience also broughtrecognition that traditional ways of imagining and carrying out the excavation project are about to undergo significant change..."