Artifact Picspam

We finished out first unit on the current phase III, so I thought I'd share a couple of artifact pictures in celebration.  Unfortunately we didn't find anything terribly exciting (read: diagnostic).  So background:

At this site we are digging two units at a time right next to each other so we end up with a 2mx1m unit with a side A and a side B. Within both A and B we dug down 5cm at a time and save all those artifacts together as a level.  We also reserved the dirt in the SW quadrant of each smaller unit to screen through 1/8 in mesh instead of our normal 1/4 mesh.  The smaller mesh takes longer to screen through, but you find smaller artifacts.  Since we used it consistently, we can extrapolate as to how many micro-flakes were present in the other three quadrants.

( Now some pictures... )

Artifact Picspam

We finished out first unit on the current phase III, so I thought I'd share a couple of artifact pictures in celebration.  Unfortunately we didn't find anything terribly exciting (read: diagnostic).  So background:

At this site we are digging two units at a time right next to each other so we end up with a 2mx1m unit with a side A and a side B. Within both A and B we dug down 5cm at a time and save all those artifacts together as a level.  We also reserved the dirt in the SW quadrant of each smaller unit to screen through 1/8 in mesh instead of our normal 1/4 mesh.  The smaller mesh takes longer to screen through, but you find smaller artifacts.  Since we used it consistently, we can extrapolate as to how many micro-flakes were present in the other three quadrants.

( Now some pictures... )