Last day in the AC...

May 16th,2014
        Today was rainy as predicted and so we continued to wash and accession our artifacts. Today is our last day of the class so we are all going home after this artifact cleaning session. I had a lot of fun learning about and experiencing American Archaeology. 

At the site and a little artifact sorting...

May 15th,2014
         Today is out last day out in the field. We are working at the site til about noon. Sam finished taking down our wall in the SE quad. Once that was complete we helped Chris and Elizabeth in their pit by transporting their buckets to Dru and Sammy to screen. After they finished up Sammy and I got down into the pits and began taking the southern corner balks down in our pits. Then we went back to Lyco. Once we got back to the AC we began washing artifacts. We sorted them out by excavation units so that each group can wash their own artifacts, so we could see what actually came out of our pits. Once I washed bags of ours I found that we actually had a good bit of Indian pottery. Our pit was a historic site in which we believe was a barrow pit. I thought it was very beneficial for us to see exactly what we found in our own pits.

Glunk site

May 14th,2014
        Today the weather didn't hold us up at all. We went to the field at 9 am and dug all morning and afternoon. Sam started off the day breaking down the wall in the SE quad to the 12 in to meet what I dug yesterday.  We continued to find nails, brick, and glass. Once Sam finished I started working on the same wall to bring it down to 24 in, even with the floor in Chris and Elizabeth's unit. Once I finished, not finding anything of significance, we switched and Sam dug in the NE quad breaking that wall down to 24 in as well. In between these two breakdowns we had a lunch break and then continued working. After Sam finished I dug the NE quad wall down to 33 in, even with the floor in our pit. After that we wrapped up for the day and got ice cream from Eder's, I got chocolate supreme which was delicious!

Flint napping and digging...again...

May 13th,2014
         Today there was dreary weather so we started out with flint napping. I had a flake that I started to shape yesterday. I continued to work on it using better tools this time like an antler and the copper headed tool. I made a pretty decent point with it, if I do say so myself. After lunch, and the weather cleared up, we went down to the site. I continued and finished the wall between our's and Chris and Elizabeth's unit in the NE quad to the 12 in mark before the day was finished. We found more nail and brick in the wall breakdown.

Flint napping and digging...

May 12th,2014
         Today there was supposed to be bad weather, and so we started out the day in the AC watching flint napping videos and attempting to flint nap ourselves. We had very poor chert because the local chert in our area is not very good, but I did have a couple good flakes which I broke trying to make them into points. Dr. Knauth came to give us better tools for our flint napping. Then, we went to the site to do some digging because the weather turned out to be much nicer. Once on site we unpacked everything and I started on finishing the SE wall clean up. After I finished, Sam took over cleaning the wall of the NE quad. All our walls were now cleaned and then Sam drew the wall profiles for the North and East walls. I then began to break down the wall between our unit and EU 17. It was very hot, and I didn't get much done before it started to drizzle and we had to pack up.

In the AC...

May 9th,2014

        Today we stayed inside to round up all paper work on New Berlin. We needed to make sure we had all the paper work in line with that so we could also properly accession the artifacts from New Berlin. The others in the group worked on the accession once all the paper work was located. I used google sheets to input all of the already accessioned artifacts from New Berlin. I have updated google sheets with all the artifacts accessioned up to date from New Berlin for everyone to use.

Glunk Site

May 8th,2014
        Today I started out digging in the SW quad. It was dug down to 33 inches, even with the SE quad. At 25 inches there was a rock 7 inches long protruding out 3 inches from the wall in the SE corner of the quad. Also once I leveled out the floor there was still charcoal and the greasy stain which we mapped out in the SW quad, and the brown greasy stain was in the middle, SW, NW and NE corners of the quad. The new layer of orange yellow sand matrix Munsell soil reading is 7.5 YR/4/4 from 27" to 33" down. Next, Sam dug the NW quad to meet the previous 2 at 33 inches. We finished out the leveling of all 4 quads and a wall clean up on the NW quad, SW quad, and started to clean up the walls of the SE quad.