Tuesday, July 13, 2010

DIG DIG DIG......

Day one and two





Well being

WOW, first of all this is one extreme experience, I am sitting here trying to move as little as possible my body hurts. My muscles are exhausted my body bruised and blistered. Our living arrangement are amazing we are staying in dorms each with our own room in an apartment. 3 bathrooms and 2 showers for every 3 people and a washer and dryer downstairs. All meals are provided. It is hot but the mornings are nice and there is usually a slight breeze.


My view at night.....
The dig

Right now we are digging in a very rocky area situated between to groves of olive trees. The first two days we have been removing first off the top layer of rocks and second the layer of topsoil about a foot of it, which has been at one time plowed so everything is mixed together. As we dig we are removing pieces of flint ad well as pottery chaloithic as well as roman. Then we come home and rest until the afternoon when we wash pottery, what we find is soaked and then we scrub it with brushes.



Personal finds and lessons!

Today among other things I found 3 inch axe head made of flint as well as a pottery chunk about 4 inches that was the side as well as part of the bottom of the pot. I also caught a scorpion no screaming or anything it was less then 2 inches long but man it was pretty cool to be brave enough to catch one. (we needed to remove it from where we were digging)





The scorpion




































So here are a few terms…



Balk (spelling)- the space between two squares that are being dug so people or wheelbarrows can cross.



Pick axe- a tool used by archaeologists loosen large areas of dirt created by SATAN.




2 comments:

  1. #1 - you look adorable beck!!!!!!!!!!
    #2 - we miss you but are so so proud! YOU FOUND A PIECE OF A POT!? dude. you. are. cool.
    #3 - scorpion? you picked it up? you airforce girl you ;-) see, you didn't do all that training/torture for nothing!

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  2. I'm loving all the pictures I'm seeing with you in them! You holding those buckets is so cute, a must frame for when you get home! And, I'm sorry, but that scorpion looks a lot bigger than 2 inches. It looks like the size of my foot. I can't believe you picked it up. :~)

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