This is our third day at the site doing more surface colletcion. It doesn't look like much, but it is actually a grid of very carefully measured squares marked by string and tape. We try to follow the natural boundaries such as house walls and hearths when making squares. It is a lot of tedious work but still exciting (well to me it is anyway). We have seperate bags for pottery sherds, stone tools, bone, and debotage. Today my friend Kelsey and I examined a wall that was filled in with "garbage". To an archaeologist ancient garbage is a gold mine! We found serveral stone tools and animals bones as well as a grinding stone. It was so cool!
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
This is our third day at the site doing more surface colletcion. It doesn't look like much, but it is actually a grid of very carefully measured squares marked by string and tape. We try to follow the natural boundaries such as house walls and hearths when making squares. It is a lot of tedious work but still exciting (well to me it is anyway). We have seperate bags for pottery sherds, stone tools, bone, and debotage. Today my friend Kelsey and I examined a wall that was filled in with "garbage". To an archaeologist ancient garbage is a gold mine! We found serveral stone tools and animals bones as well as a grinding stone. It was so cool!
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