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.

Rain Day

Because of rain today we were not able to go out to the Glunk site. Instead, we spent the day cataloging all the artifacts we found at New Berlin. We also compiled all our paper work from our work at New Berlin and Emily began to input the cataloged sheets into the computer. We successfully completed all our work regarding the New Berlin dig today which was our primary goal. We also did some work on our field journals to bring them up to date.

Day 6 at the Glunk Site

Today was also nice and we picked up where we had left off from yesterday. Elizabeth started in on the North East Quad to bring it down level with the other quads. Unfortunately she could not continue digging and I ended up finishing off the North East Quad. I then excavated out the South East Quad to the same level (roughly 21 inches). I finished off the day by starting to bring my pit level with EU16, Dru's pit, at 24 inches deep. Unfortunately, we did not find anything exciting today, I don't think we found too much at all today in our pit, EU17.