Well the second week of Community Archaeology is in the books. And it was a wet one! We actually only managed to dig on Monday and Friday. The rest of the week it was monsoon season in Kodiak (rained almost 6 inches in 3 days) and we spent the days in the museum lab cleaning artifacts and doing odd jobs. I threatenned that if we ran out of work somebody could always manicure Roxy the dog's nails and clean her teeth (I think I had Dianne in mind for this job). But it never did get that desperate, and Karen even found artifact of the day on wednesday while sorting through a drawer of 'Misc. Worked Wood' from the Karluk One site. She found a misidentified wooden harpoon head that would otherwise have never seen the light of day (the misc worked wood drawers are basically full of whittled sticks and rarely looked into).
And the two days we did get to dig were very productive! If you compare the top of L3 pan photo from last week with the one I took today you will see just how much dirt we moved. In the main block, Don found a hearth in what I think is a smoke processing structure while Lauren and Rose uncovered a 6000 year-old, red ochre smeared tent floor. We also discovered that the site is far larger than we thought. Chase crossed the driveway that leads to the KISA trailer and found that the site extends to the top of the mound and the ridge over there too. He even found a nice bayonet in one of his test pits (top photo). All and All a most productive week.
In the other photos - In the 3rd from top Milo, Mackenzie, and Chase excavate the newly discovered part of the site at 'Block E' across the trailer driveway. In the 4rth from top Rose uncovers 'OS18' the 6 or 7000 year-old ochre smeared surface. Finally in the bottom photo Jenny and Alicia plug away removing L3 mixed ash deposits looking for the elusive L3B. Patrick
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