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Digging into the feature
This past week has been the best so far. We found more features, had visitor day, and finally started excavating the features. We have ended up with 19 open units. that form a nice picture of what we...
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The first week of fieldschool led me to believe that we were digging right next to a kitchen. We were finding brick, food carrying vessels, knife blades, tableware, glass tumblers, burnt bones (mostly...
View ArticleThe End
For the past five weeks we have been sweating out in the Louisiana heat and humidity, hard at work to excavate the Galveztown site. It has been a lot of work and we have shed a lot of sweat and some...
View ArticleAll Good Things Must Come to an End
Well, field school is technically over now, and it has been a long five weeks. We have sweated and shoveled until we have blisters, but we have also made some incredible discoveries. We found...
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Faience
According to Dr. Mann's highly technical analysis, we have had faience out the wazoo during this field school. Which, in layman's terms, means LOTS AND LOTS. Even us highly excitable students were...
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Last thoughts
In our last week of field school, we had quite a few visitors; open house was a fantastic success, with at least fifty people showing up throughout the day. The day after that, members of the LAS...
View ArticleEach Day I Spend A Dreaming
Each day I spend a dreaming,Of dirt digging and water screening,And how hours long and the sun brightFearful of rain leaking in my unit that night.Ants dancing their sneaky fangs,Itching my legs and...
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Galveztown theory
Here is my theory of what was unearthed and mapped during this five week archaeological dig: Feature 20 (F20) is in fact a structure due to its rectangular design and high artifact denisty. Though not...
View ArticleThe Heat Was Hot
The heat was hot and the sweat was sticky and sadly, it's finally over. The ants bit and bit and bit and bit. And bit again. And again. Until we killed them. Then they bit again. For the past five...
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Into the Unknown
Last week we finally stopped digging units and started digging out our feature. From the underneath of a house to plow scars, our ideas seem to have been all over the place as to what the feature...
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