Palace Lands Harris Matrix

The Harris Matrix summarizes stratigraphic relationships among excavated contexts and groups of contexts that DAACS staff has identified as part of the same stratigraphic group. Stratigraphic groups and contexts are represented as boxes, while lines connecting them represent temporal relationships implied by the site’s stratification, as recorded by the site’s excavators (Harris 1979).

Stratigraphic groups, which represent multiple contexts, are identified on the diagram by their numeric designations (e.g. SG02), followed by a description (e.g. “Subfloor Pit, Layer 2”).

Because attempts at seriation were unsuccessful, no phases were assigned to Palace Lands (see Chronology).

This Harris Matrix is based on data on stratigraphic relationships recorded among contexts in the DAACS database. It was drawn with the ArchEd application. See http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/arched/index.html.

See Palace Lands Chronology for stratigraphic and phase information.

For a printable version, download the Harris Matrix [79.25 KB PDF].