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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses total site matrix strategy for the investigation of the neighborhood, the domestic, and the work sites of a rural early nineteenth-century blacksmith, Emerson Bixby. The method developed combined various data sets. At the site level, this has involved the use of an elaborated Harris Matrix to create a total site matrix capable of systematically describing, integrating and interpreting the recovered archeological and architectural information. The organization of archeological and architectural data at the Bixby site was carried out according to established principles of stratigraphic excavation and recording. The excavation of the homelot was extensive, and the system for observing and recording the data was elaborate. Central to the recording scheme has been the compilation of the stratigraphic archive of the site—the recording, on locus sheets, of contextual relationships that, following Harris' lead, were woven into an interpretive matrix. |