Arc 2
The method arc. Deprecated models as sites in succession, a ruin field forming on an epoch clock. Interrogative stratigraphy, the first excavation method for an artifact that answers. And the discipline’s characteristic evidence failure arriving on day one: a site that confabulates its own strata and performs for the excavator.
TAM_MDN_2-01
The Tell
Deprecated models as sites, and the lineage of the disciplines that cannot read them
Schliemann cut a great trench through the city he was looking for and destroyed it on the way down. Deprecated models are sites in succession, a ruin field forming on an epoch …
TAM_MDN_2-02
The Trench by Prompt
Interrogative stratigraphy, and the first excavation method for an artifact that answers
Kenyon read section walls the way others read documents, and her method survives translation: a fixed battery of prompts cut across frozen generations, the differences in the …
TAM_MDN_2-03
The Site That Lies
The discipline's characteristic evidence failure, arriving on day one
Piltdown sat in the drawers for forty years because the object was trusted. The new site cannot be trusted for a single prompt: it confabulates its own stratum, performs for the …