期刊名称：SAA Archaeological Record, The : The magazine of the Society for American Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：1532-7299
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：33-33
出版社：Society for American Archaeology
摘要：The use of total stations in archaeological excavation makes
it very easy to record quickly the three-dimensional coordinates
of artifacts, samples, or features. The greater challenge
is to link these coordinates to the actual object and to
maintain this link throughout subsequent processing and
analysis. Such linkages are usually made through the use of
unique identification numbers that are assigned to objects as
they are recovered. When dealing with several thousand or even
several hundreds of thousands of objects, identification numbers
tend to be both long and complicated. Each can take 1¨C2
seconds to enter on the keyboard, and there is always the potential
to make mistakes. The use of barcodes solves both of these
problems: a barcode representing an identification number can
be read in a fraction of a second and with a high degree of accuracy.
Here we describe barcode technology and provide two
examples on how the use of barcodes has greatly increased both
the speed and accuracy of maintaining those crucial links and,
in the process, greatly facilitated the day-to-day handling of
objects.
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