Catalog Samples & Cladograms

Use the index cards to build your catalogs. That should be obvious from the description of the assignment and the time spent buying index cards but...Why do the obvious when there's so much more to complicate, complain about, and obfuscate before you just get down to it and make something of it? The way the sum of the index cards are arranged and related makes a very easy and simple diagrammatic set of relationships.
Grant and I had a discussion just before he left over "Can't see" vs. "Haven't been shown how to see". Today, "Can't see" won today after we prepared very carefully for helping to see. It is so disappointing that everything you do has to have an example to "trace" before it will get done. You've fought the drawings, you've fought the foam, you've fought the paper, and now the catalogs. No invention. No initiative. No innovation. Just meeting the requirements.
Only an example satiates. Explanations do little or nothing. So, here's some examples from people at TTU who have before imagined how to do this and found their own way, here's some example catalogs to "trace":



You go to the site and you write down each thing you see onto a card. You COLLECT the totality of the site. Your bias comes through of course but you don't force it and cater to it. You let it find its way through the seeing. You KNOW everything that is there. You categorize, rationalize, organize, and taxonomize EVERYTHING there. Yes, you do have a bias but a bias is not a right to skip whole matters of the place. That's ignorance, something a professional cannot afford to be accused of. You then build an analysis of EVERYTHING there because you KNOW EVERYTHING there.

Be working at the site at 10h00.