convento | The Society for Georgia Archeology

Spanish term for a complex of buildings, often encircled by a wall, in which Catholic friars or nuns live and do much of their work

Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001

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the location or placement of an artifact, feature, or site, including its relationship to other artifacts, features, and the surrounding environment Context includes the soil around archaeological materials. Sometimes, the context of artifacts is more informative than the artifacts!