Wednesday, March 11, 2009

American History X


"bite the curb" a classic line from the movie American History X. The adult skeleton appears to have suffered the same fate as the character in American History X, as inferred by the head wound. The rib cage of the skeleton has also been caved in, so maybe the culprit missed the first time, or was just finishing him off.

The sad part about this is, the last time anyone was in the house that we are uncovering, people were dying.

The Skeletons



This is two skeletons of anctient times. Our team found them in square C4. It appears as if when they died they were possibiliy hiding from someone, such as a roman guard. The larger of the two skeletons has a massive blow to his ribcage, implying that he/she got into a bit of action before he/she died. The child skeleton is holding the larger skeleton's hand.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

hot days and heavy buckets

As the time passes in the year, the temperature contuines to rise. This nuclear death heat is something that I do not look foward to at all each year. Its almost as if I forget how hot it gets, but i guess thats where all the fun is.

This past week, Alex has turned over his supervisional powers to me as the new square leader of A3. Thus far in the group we are uncovering the natural floor and excavating the skeletons that are in our square.

its that time again..

well i guess its time to get started on blogging for the Archaeology class that i am in. Some new changes that have occured since last semester is mainly, less people in the class, therefore only containing 2 groups instead of 3. I am in group alpha with Alex, GJ, Clayton, and Brant. In our current square, we are excavating two skeletons, one a older parental figure of the other smaller child in the square. They appear to be holding hands, as if they were trying to escape or hide form something or someone. The opposing square across the field from us has found..well.. nothing of any real significance such as a skeleton, but they have found some smaller things that im sure are of great importance of learning abut the anctient civilations that onced lived there.

Monday, November 10, 2008

11/7

Today Brandon and Jaclyn were not at the dig site, so that left Bethany and I to do all the work. Really all that happened today was just a minor cleanup session for our remaining dirt on the surface. yay! 

11/5- Moving the dirt

Today was another very unfortunate day to be at our square as well. In our square there was a lot of run off dirt that rolled down the slope in our square that we had to remove. This was an extremely fun experience. NOT! Anyways Brandon and I also were finding bricks along the way that we did not find the day before.

11/4

Today was one of the less enjoyable days out at the dig site. The reason for this is that everytime we would try an find a brick, they were no where to be found. This was bad news because we had to find them all. As a result of this Brandon and I had to pick around 3-4 feet into the earth to find them. we eventually found all of them but it was a unfortunate experience..








Above is a picture of part of the wall that we had uncovered.