Today started at the crack of dawn as usual...
The difference was that today dawned with a glorious moon and stars still out :3
The day took a turn for the worst at this stage, with me catching my finger on a stray nail as I jumped from the truck...
GOOD THING I GOT MY TETANUS JABS!
Anywho...
From this point on it was me and Tash on hearth excavations.
Work progressed quickly for the most part with us finishing off 2 hearths prior to lunchtime.
Both of these hearths were charcoal rich (yay) but otherwise relatively barren with the exception of afew small shells interred within the walls of the hearth.
Following lunch we started on the big kahuna of hearths.
The mother of all mothers...
This thing was huge... and absolutley loaded with charcoal... and bone... and and and and :D
Long story short it was a pretty cool hearth.
About 2cm below the surface we encountered a early paliolithic projectile point!
The difference was that today dawned with a glorious moon and stars still out :3
Pwetty!
GOOD THING I GOT MY TETANUS JABS!
Anywho...
From this point on it was me and Tash on hearth excavations.
Work progressed quickly for the most part with us finishing off 2 hearths prior to lunchtime.
Both of these hearths were charcoal rich (yay) but otherwise relatively barren with the exception of afew small shells interred within the walls of the hearth.
Following lunch we started on the big kahuna of hearths.
The mother of all mothers...
This thing was huge... and absolutley loaded with charcoal... and bone... and and and and :D
Long story short it was a pretty cool hearth.
About 2cm below the surface we encountered a early paliolithic projectile point!
paleo projectile point!
If you compare this point to the others that we have found you will notice that its notching is more evenly spread, the strapping area for attachment to the projectile sliver is much less whittled and the arrow point itself is smaller... These features are all things which allow us to typologically group this projectile point... and stuff...
Home from the field in time to get mad at house people being incociderate and using our hot water :( and also for delicious food :D
All in all today was a good day, a nice change from the usual nailing out of artefacts...
Tomorow its back to nailing out for me, so hopefully the neolithic people have left some sweet projectile points around :3
Tash excavating the big kahuna!
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