The Weird Part

The Weird Part
One day we found a bottom of a pot that said Kevin, Chris and other names. We thought that our teacher buried the pieces. After we found more, our teacher said that in his last class he did not find anything. So that’s why his last class bought pots and designed it about Native Americans. After they were finished our teacher broke the pot and buried the pieces. There were five pots. We were so excited when we first found our first piece. Now we are not digging at the dig site but still having fun putting them together. During the digging we had a lot of fun digging and sifting. Even though we know that common people buried them. What and archeological period!

Setting Up the Dig Site
Before we started digging at the dig site we had to set up the dig site. To do that on the first day outside our group brought stakes, meter sticks, and a hammer. Then we set up the dig site by using the meter sticks to measure and put a stake every 2 feet. Then our teacher took the hammer and pounded the stakes into the dirt. Then we put string on the stakes so there were a 4 by 4 number of squares on our dig site. That was how our dig site was set up! Also this took two days to do it. Bye!


Peter

The Last Day
Yesterday was the last day of the dig. A lot of the holes were filled with water. We lost a lot of pottery to the water. A huge hole with a lot of pieces was completely flooded and there was nothing we could do about it. We could not dig in the holes with water and that made things very hectic. People had to dig in the same holes as each other. My friend and I made a lot of progress but unfortunately we didn’t find anything. In fact, nobody found anything. Also, somebody had to go and get in the muddy water. My friend got a mouthful of mud and it got on my sleeve. But other then that, the day went good. We made more progress because more people dug the same hole than they used to. To bad we didn't find ant thing. Thats what happened on the last day of the dig.




Sam

Finishing Up the Work

Finishing Up the Work
On the last day at the dig site we tried to cover as many squares as possible. It rained last night so there were a lot of squares filled with puddles. On this day we tried to hurry and get as many artifacts as possible. Before this day we dug slow and didn’t get much work done probably because we spent most of our time trying to crack roots in half. Also some days we couldn’t even dig because there was too much water in the squares. On this day like usual, no artifacts were found at all. The next days we are supposed to put the pieces of pottery together. Near the end of the elective our teacher started taking down the dig site because as I said earlier, this was our last day digging and spending time at the dig site. This is what we did on January 5th 2009!

Posted by Peter

Archaeological Finds

Archaeological Finds
December 3rd 2008- We just started our dig! We found 3 pieces of pottery!
December 4th 2008- We found 2 pieces of pottery. They do not fit together.
December 8th 2008- We found 5 pieces of pottery and a glass piece.
December 9th 2008- We found 13 pieces of pottery. Our biggest number yet! One includes a pot rim!

Pieces of Pottery

Hello, this is Peter telling you what we did at the dig site! On December the second I found an artifact that looked a lot like a shard of pottery. This piece had a lot of strange markings on it. Then, when I was digging one day on December 4th, I hit something hard! I then used a smaller shovel and started to get more of the cracked pieces that I found two days ago! There was a total of 12 pieces found! I hit a Jackpot! The square I was working in got very crowded because everyone wanted to see the pieces. The artifacts managers then started to put together the pieces everyday and I had a feeling in my gut that still there were some missing pieces. Then, Austin, on December 9th found another piece of the pottery. When the artifacts managers put the bottom of the vase together, it had modern time names of people I know! Mr. Barton explained to us that last year he told his students to make a vase and to paint it so it would look ancient. He then told us that when they were done painting, he used a hammer to smash it into pieces. Before I knew this I could have concluded that if this was a real artifact, that someone must have dropped it in the specific area I was digging in. I came to this conclusion (before Mr. Barton told us it was unreal) because most of, or all of the pieces were in the area I was digging. Wish you luck at the dig site!

Posted By Peter

Dec. 10 2008

Hello! After several weeks of digging we have a lot of storys to tell! We have made a grid on our dig site so we can keep carefull track of where artifacts were found. To make sure we don't lose any information, the diggers fill out sheets where they mark on a grid where they found the artifact. Then they write how deep they found it. To find this information, we strech a yarn over the grid and and measure it with centimeters. Then, after subtracting the height of the grid, you can successfully write the depth. This page will help the artafact manegers sort the itams and put them together.

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Abigail (site maneger)