for example, digital cameras, total stations, laser scanners, proton magnetometers, X-ray fluorescence machines, and their ilk – all encapsulate in various ways a mixture of techniques, calculations, and interventions that they employ on our behalf to explore, reveal, capture, and characterise archaeological objects.
The workflow records each tool's inbedded computation (e.g., DEM creation, geocoding, centrality). I’ll document versions, default settings, and procedural steps so readers may reconstruct how algorithms affected mapped "secondary" routes.