Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Midweek Update - Last week of the Field School
- Saturday we had our open house - many people came to the sites to see what we've been working on - friends, family, neighbors from around the Busseyville area, land owners, and professional archaeologists alike. We gave tours, showed off our artifacts and features, showed photos, and cooked a lot of food.

Dr. Jeske showing off one of our features at CBHC

Rick explaining the features at KCV


Excavations continued - pretty much everyone is working on features - At Crescent Bay we're also uncovering some old features to get a better idea of what is going on with two houses that we located in 2010. We're working on uncovering the east wall of a wigwam style house in the center of the site and the southern portion of a longhouse in the northern portion of the site

Postmolds at CBHC

Basined out Pit

Dark soil stains - most likely the remains of a pit 


And at KCV we're still working on taking down feature 12-06. After today we're almost to the bottom. The feature is getting more complicated as the different zones are overlapping.
Large Scapula (sholder blade) - likely from a deer

Antler

A layer of fish scale that covered almost the entire feature - then below that there was another layer of the same size