its rained alot this weekend, but today we stayed in. me and clayton try to find the diffrent ways of figuring age/race/sex of the skeleton and we figured a method. the baby was a male as well as the adult, sex and race is undetermined. we will look into it!!!!

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that is my drawing of the skeleton, since my pictures dont upload. i will be asking molina.

i hope my images finally start to show up, but this blogger hates me. archaeology was great tyoday even though i was still sick, very bad congestion. they dug around alot but had some rains so it wasnt really possible.

i still cannot get the pictures to work, they look like little itty bitty squares. but i was again sick today with a sinus infection, but apparently they went out and it was really hot. and they were sad because i could not take the buckets for them.

wow how cool this is my esteem coleague brian duvall, who is also a super genious and digs like the pro's

i was sick today but i figured out that they stayed in this day and just continued putting the pieces together to the large indian masterpiece that brant destroyeed:)

digging has progresed, i have alot of fun sifting and taking buckets. we are nearing the end day by day. only a month left of school:) archaeology has been great,.

today was a long long day, we had block so it was double period. it was very hot and we didnt have a huge watermelon. but i dug around with my petish and took some more buckets to the gallow.

another exciting day in the field of arcghaeology. we actually went outside to discover some sauceys messed with the digsite, guess who had to clean up?

great its monday, the worst day of the week. at least we got to stay inside so it wasnt that best we worked on the nets and putting together that indian object.

today was yet again a very productive day, i have no idea whats happening but were getting much better, at5 least its friday and i got to go home after this period, very great day but i cant seem to understand how to post pictures

today was a pretty cool day we went out to dig but it rained sum so we were not able to do anything really!

the last day of march and my mommies birthday, how cool! today i had a doctotrs appointment but there was alot of excavation and discovery! brant said he pic axed the sauce out of d4

today was a great day i took more buckets out, we excavated and dug up alot more, we found some small clay fragmants but nothing as big yet as the indian piece that brant stabbed to death

ity looks alot drier now, things are much better and easier to dig especiallty with that wonderful trench. there seems to be alot of productivity lately. i again took more buckets out, its my favorite thing to do ever.

finally the mud is clearing out, surprising the trench is still there that connects to the plants, i carried alot of buckets out and it was a very productive day,.

today we went out to the dig site, i measures thru the scope and took elevations with the team, some of the area was still muddy. we are progressing much farther and working effiently.

We have returned from spring break after about ten days, really nine though. I arrived late because I was at a Dr. appointment, it seems like the site took a lot of rain damage. We placed tarps over it, Brant is new square leader. Oh my.

no class! pi day!

today we cleaned alot of things because we got rained out, we had a giant delicious watermelon during fruit break, and the team put together the indian piece.

Today we have began digging more in our new square. We removed the artifact which broke up into about four main pieces, it appears to be a rare Indian piece, not sure exactly what though. Looks valuable.

Today we began cleaning the skeleton, started cleaning the dirt off and polishing the bones and measureing to determine age, and sex.

completely finished, i worked on a certain area, duvie was back from t tech, and he did a great job leadership! the skeletons were to be removed we covered our new squre to protect artifact

we have been progressing alot we have uncovered the skeletons, 6th graders came in for a visit. i carried some more buckets and we finished our square. we have started the new one and begun to uncover an artifact that brant already broke.

sauceysauce

well we dug more, got closer to get the skeletons out...finally the water decided to evaporate. me and clayton worked on clearing one section. and i carried some buckets

we planted pine trees because its suppose to make a desert sand area more appealing. we got some water and poured it. did not clean today.

we have been digging more and more of the baby and the more are seen, they are deff holding hands, only a little more work remains

It seem to rain again, we could not dig on friday, Judas is still swimming around. We have selected a new area to begin digging, I believe D-1. We moved the shed and all of the euipment to a new location, which should be more helpful.

Last week, we had water so we couldn't dig on long days and we could only dig on one section on Friday. I just filled sandbags that day, only 2 people could work in the small area that wasnt so damp. We were very limited, hope its better this coming week.

Saucey

Today we dug a little more, Alex articulated one of the walls and we moved alot of dirt from our area. It was a very productive day, everyone was working hard. Under our new leader, duvieeee. We will succeed.

...We have hit the floor or at least found it, it will be some time before it is all uncovered. But things are progressing great, the team is doing a great job. I'm excited about starting soon with both of my hands. Hopefully next week if I get some form of approval.

...We have discovered that the cause of death of the mother is the rib area collapsing, thier appears to be critical damage, perhaps a large object smashed into it. So we still have a while to go before we uncover them entirely...

...Mr. Thames had it collected as an example that even things such as footprints now leave clear evidence. Then we have progressed to two body's. One is the baby, and the other is probably the mother (Judas Clayton) and they appear to be either holding each other's hands or reaching for each other's hands...

...We have uncovered several stones, that had made up a wall of the house, I did some hoeing, transportation of the buckets. Along with some digging, it's been very fun working with a pettish, its a very useful tool. I found a nike symbol imprinted on a rock, indicating that Nike dates back to the roman era (of course I'm kidding)...

Following week - Archaeology

I've returned to archeology after my surgery, I missed a little over a week unfortunately. I recently joined team alpha last week, in exchange for Anna we switched teams. I was very excited about working with my group of Alex, Brian, and Brant...

First day of Archeology

Today was my first day in Mr. Thames's archeology class. Class started off well, Mr. Thames was presenting his archaeological trip of Israel, and explaining what a real dig site looks like, and the work/equipment, and tasks involved in discovering artifacts. Mr. Thames then graciously ordered some pizza, but I couldn't have any :(. We got some gloves and equipment out of the storage boxes, and began to head out to the dig site behind the school near the baseball field. We started off removing the blue covers that soaked up all the rain from the break, and disposed of all the water. We began examining the area, I learned alot of things about a Romans house and the symmetry that they like to have. A house that had burned down, made of well cut bricks. There was alot of jewelery and various items indicating the owners wealth, while the house next door was built with simple stones found in certain areas, it could have possibly been the Roman's slave. There is still much to uncover in this expedition, and I hope there will be much more to learn.