Item

Items include artifacts and human remains. See below for their descriptions.

Artifact

CIDOC documentation: E22 Human-Made Object

Artifact such as coins or pottery can be entered in this form.

At the index page already entered entities are listed in a Table.

• Click on the + button to enter a new one

• Click on the name of an entry in the list to access the detail view

• To edit or delete an entry, click on the Edit button in the detail view.

Form fields

• Name

• Type

• Date

• Description

• Carrier of source - if a Source is depicted on the artifact

• Map

• Super - A Place, Feature, Stratigraphic unit, or artifact, which the entered artifact is a part of

• Owned by - Link the artifact to an Actor (person or group) who owns it, such as a museum or a collector

• Reference System

Can be linked via tabs to

• Source - Use, if an artifact is mentioned in a source

• Event - Use, if an artifact was part of an event such as its production

• Subs - Use, to add sub artifacts

• Reference - Use to add citation

• File - Add a file, e.g. a picture of the artifact

Human remains

CIDOC documentation: E20 Biological Object

“Human remains” is used to record anthropological data based on each human bone. They are subunits of a Stratigraphic unit which itself is a subunit of Feature. Please note that information on the biological sex, gender, and age of an individual can be entered in the stratigraphic unit entry mask. For an archaeological workflow example see Archaeological data.

Form fields

• Name

• Type

• Date

• Description

• Carrier of source - if a Source is depicted on the remains

• Map

• Reference System

• Super - a Place, Feature, Stratigraphic unit, or human remains, which it is a part of

• Owned by - the Actor (person or group) who owns the remains such as museum

• Reference System

Can be linked via tabs to

• Source - Use, if a human remains is mentioned in a source

• Event - Acquisition, modification, move, and/or production can be linked

• Subs - Use, to add sub human remains

• Reference

• File

Super and subunits

In the OpenAtlas database Human remains can be subunits of a Stratigraphic unit (e.g. a human femur (human remains) of a skeleton (stratigraphic unit) in a grave (feature)). A Stratigraphic unit can consist of one or more Human remains (femur, humerus and first molar of the same individual etc.) as well as finds (artifacts).