Excavata

Desktop Features

Powerful post-excavation tools for macOS and Windows — analyse, visualise, and report from your lab or office.

Three-Panel Workspace

An interface designed around how archaeologists actually work with their data.

  • ●Navigator panel for browsing the site tree
  • ●Central workspace for editing and viewing records
  • ●Inspector panel for metadata and relationships
  • ●Resizable and collapsible panels

Browse your entire project hierarchy at a glance.

  • ●Hierarchical view: Site → Area → Trench → Context
  • ●Quick search and filtering
  • ●Colour-coded status indicators
Three-Panel Workspace showing navigator, workspace, and inspector panels

Project Planning & Bids

Scope, cost, and price a project before the first trench — for commercial tenders or academic grants.

  • ●Bid calculator with editable day rates
  • ●Costs, rates, and consumables libraries
  • ●Staff, labour log, and field-trip planning
  • ●Invoicing, budgets, and grant tracking
Project planning and bid preparation in the office

Bulk Lab Processing

Process large volumes of finds and samples efficiently in the lab.

  • ●Batch artifact recording and classification
  • ●Spreadsheet-style bulk editing
  • ●Weight, count, and measurement entry
  • ●Lab workflow status tracking
Bulk lab processing with spreadsheet-style editing

Harris Matrix Visualisation

Automatically generate stratigraphic diagrams from your recorded relationships.

  • ●Auto-generated Harris Matrix from context data
  • ●Interactive zoom, pan, and selection
  • ●Highlight phases and groupings
  • ●Export as SVG or PDF
Harris Matrix visualisation showing stratigraphic relationships

Statistics Dashboard

An eleven-tab quantitative-analysis workspace that runs on your recorded data — no export to a separate statistics package.

  • ●Overview, Faunal, Archaeobotanical, Palynology, Environmental, Isotope, Archaeometry, Artefacts, Comparisons, Human Remains and Chronology tabs
  • ●Diversity, ubiquity, chi-square, PCA, biodistance, radiocarbon and spatial statistics
  • ●Charts, biplots, box plots and heatmaps you can read and export
  • ●See the full picture on the Analysis page
Excavata statistics dashboard

Report Assembler

Build publication-ready reports directly from your project data.

  • ●Drag-and-drop report sections
  • ●Auto-populated tables and summaries
  • ●Inline figure placement
  • ●Template support for different report styles
Report assembler with drag-and-drop sections and auto-populated tables

Figure Management

Organise, annotate, and prepare figures for reports and publications.

  • ●Figure numbering and captioning
  • ●Annotation and markup tools
  • ●Batch export in multiple formats
  • ●Link figures to contexts and records
Figure management with numbering, captioning, and annotation tools

Export Capabilities

Get your data out in the format you need — open and interoperable.

  • ●PDF reports with embedded figures
  • ●CSV for spreadsheet analysis
  • ●JSON and XML for archival and interoperability
  • ●GeoPackage and Shapefile for GIS (opens in QGIS, ArcGIS)
  • ●SVG for vector graphics and plans
Export capabilities with PDF, CSV, JSON, XML, and SVG formats

Desktop apps are in private beta

Excavata for macOS and Windows is currently being tested with selected archaeologists and heritage professionals.

General downloads will become available following beta testing. In the meantime, register your interest and we'll keep you posted.

Register your interest

Start in the field

Excavata mobile captures data on-site, then syncs seamlessly with the desktop app for post-excavation work.

Mobile Features