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