fieldworks
Hastily built ramparts
Fieldworks are temporary fortifications constructed during military operations—earthen banks, trenches, and barriers built to defend a position or shelter troops.
Unlike permanent fortifications, fieldworks are improvised from available materials: The soldiers spent the night digging fieldworks.
The term also applies to archaeological or scientific work conducted in the field rather than a laboratory, though that sense more commonly appears as the singular fieldwork.
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- earthworksConstructed soil fortifications
- redoubtEnclosed temporary fortification
- entrenchmentFortified or fixed position
- rampartFortified defensive wall
bunker · trench · defensive · siege · battery · parapet · breastwork · embankment
Act of unearthing
- trowelFlat blade for spreading
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- trenchLong narrow excavation
ceramics · potsherd · lithics · provenience · context · assemblage · grid · datum
Systematic study of peoples
- kinshipState of being related
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- informantsPeople providing secret intelligence
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
taboos · ethnology · mythology · folklore · traditions · norms · values · subculture
Observation path for surveys
- mappingDiagram of correspondences
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- quadratBlank typesetting block
- GPSSatellite-based location technology
theodolite · magnetometry · reconnaissance · topography · geophysical · systematic
fortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- earthworksConstructed soil fortifications
- redoubtEnclosed temporary fortification
- entrenchmentFortified or fixed position
rampart · bunker · trench · defensive · siege · battery · parapet · breastwork · embankment · bulwark
excavation
Act of unearthing
- trowelFlat blade for spreading
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
trench · ceramics · potsherd · lithics · provenience · context · assemblage · grid · datum · profile
ethnography
Systematic study of peoples
- kinshipState of being related
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- informantsPeople providing secret intelligence
customs · taboos · ethnology · mythology · folklore · traditions · norms · values · subculture · sociolinguistics
transect
Observation path for surveys
GPS · theodolite · magnetometry · reconnaissance · topography · geophysical · systematic
outcrop
Surfacing native stone
hammer · mapping · strata · formation · bedrock · sediment · mineral · fossil · log · traverse
fieldworkscastles
Fortified royal residences
citadels · stone walls · bastions · strongholds · fortresses
fieldworkslaboratory work
Scientific research activity
lab work · office work · bench work · controlled experiments · library research
fieldworksheadquarters
Central command location
garrison · rear echelon · barracks · command post · base camp