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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