Last Day of Field School

Today was very rainy and we were stuck inside as we expected. We continued cleaning artifacts as we had started yesterday. Unfortunately, we were not able to clean all the artifacts we had dug out during our field school but we were able to clean a good deal of them. We also handed in all our paper work regarding our dig. And now we are free.

Last Day of Glunk Dig

Due to weather concerns we only dug in the morning today. At the site it was cloudy and there was a slight drizzle for a while. Our goal was to bring all the pits level and take down the walls between our pits. To this end I continued to excavate the South East Quad down to 39 inches, which took almost no time to as the sand matrix was much lighter by this point and easier to dig through. Then Elizabeth dug out the North West Quad while I simultaneously dug out the South East Quad. We chunked right through both quads in almost no time as we were finding no artifacts or features and the soil was much easier to dig through. Once we brought our pit level with the others and the wall between EU18 and EU17 had been taken down, we started to bring down the corner baulks which we had left to hold the stakes in. Unfortunately we were only able to bring these down to the end of the first level just about, as we were leaving semi-early.

Back at the college, we cleaned artifacts for the rest of the day.

Day 9 of Glunk Dig

Today was a nice, cool, sunny day so we were able to go out and dig all day. The pits were nice and dry which allowed us to pick up from where we left off. Our goal was to finish digging out the North East and South East Quads to 24-5 inches, clean-up our walls, and start excavating down to 39 inches. I dug out the South East Quad to 25 inches with Elizabeth doing the same in the North East Quad. I then started to dig out the North East Quad to 39 inches which I was able to finish, allowing Elizabeth to start on the South East Quad. For once we managed to meet all our goals in digging.

Rain Day/ Day 8 of Glunk Dig

This morning was very rainy so we once again tried flint knapping, this time with proper tools provided by Dr. Knauth. We had a bit more success today, but the material we were working with, local chert, was not very good for what we were doing. After lunch we headed out to the site to try and get more digging done as this is our last week at the site.

The site was once more a bit muddy, but the pits were nice and dry. In EU 17, we continued excavating out to level 4 in the North West Quad. This was unfortunately all we managed to do today, but it was only half a day of digging.

Day 7 of Glunk Dig

This morning was not very nice so we decided to do some experimental archeology. We planned to do so flint snapping and to try and make atlatls. We only got to try flint snapping but we did not have the appropriate tools so it was not a very successful venture. Around 11:00 we went out to the site with Dr. Knauth tagging along to see what we were doing.

At the site it ended up being rather nice so we got to work. I continued to bring the pit down to the 24 inches that would bring us level with our neighbor as he started going down to the next level which was supposed to be 36 inches down (it ended up being a little bit deeper at 39+ inches). Today we found nothing in our pit (EU17) but we were not going down very far either.