Most users will not find it necessary to resort to these hints. As in any good software of this kind, there are many routes to the same ends and the cues are very clear to anyone with a working knowledge of written English. The graphics are very clear and the prose is unencumbered by fashionable obfuscation. One can restrict students by budgetary constraints in an electronic excavation simulation, using a modified command line. Occaneechi Town was completely excavated, and it is both educational and entertaining to see what happens if one has to make inferences on the basis of an excavation of only a portion of the site.
Students can choose from an array of excavation strategies and take the interpretive consequences.
A close-up photo of an Occaneechi excavation. From Excavating Occaneechi Town T he authors have chosen to make all their graphics available as simple bitmap files. Maps are in AutoCAD Exchange format. Artifact data are in dBase III and Paradox formats. In other words, if you know a little about computers and have some additional software you can make your own use of the information on this CD-ROM rather easily.