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.

Your's

Abigail (site maneger)

December 1, 2008

Today was an exciting day in Archaeology AG! We found out what jobs we will do. Here are some jobs that people might have:
Site manager (In charge of a section of the dig site)
Digger (Digs for artifacts on the site)
Sifter (Goes through the overturned dirt, finding artifacts the diggers missed)
Photographer (Takes pictures of the artifacts)
Toos Manager (Hands out tools and helps diggers use them)
Artifacts Manager (Records and handles found artifacts)
Tomorrow we hope to begin finish laying out our grid, and then we will begin digging.

Happy digging,

Abigail (Site Manager)