Artifact Picspam
Mar. 29th, 2010 06:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinksoniaWe 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:
These are the two bags of bags that represent all the artifacts we found within unit 12 A. I have another two bags, just as full, from unit 12 B. If you open up each bag there are ~20 level bags inside. I don't have a picture of them, because the writing on them contains more specific information about where we are. I doubt any of you are looters, but I'd still get in trouble. Anyway, if you opened one of the level bags you'd get something like this:
Flakes!!! or chipped stone depending on where you are. The largest one may have been utilized as a tool in its own right, because flakes of that size usually are, but primarily these are just the trash left over from making a stone tool. (you know "arrow heads" and the like).
If you opened a bag that came from the 1/8 in screen you'd get something like this instead:
Those are micro flakes and really, the name does them justice. I only half envy the person who gets to wash them back at the office.
I've also come to the realization that I need a new archaeology icon. The current one makes me look like I"m perpetually having a bad day -- and I'm really not. I do love me some Emerson thought -- any Amelia Peabody fans around? I shall have to look around again for something more generic, possible with trowels and/or shovels.
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:
These are the two bags of bags that represent all the artifacts we found within unit 12 A. I have another two bags, just as full, from unit 12 B. If you open up each bag there are ~20 level bags inside. I don't have a picture of them, because the writing on them contains more specific information about where we are. I doubt any of you are looters, but I'd still get in trouble. Anyway, if you opened one of the level bags you'd get something like this:
Flakes!!! or chipped stone depending on where you are. The largest one may have been utilized as a tool in its own right, because flakes of that size usually are, but primarily these are just the trash left over from making a stone tool. (you know "arrow heads" and the like).
If you opened a bag that came from the 1/8 in screen you'd get something like this instead:
Those are micro flakes and really, the name does them justice. I only half envy the person who gets to wash them back at the office.
I've also come to the realization that I need a new archaeology icon. The current one makes me look like I"m perpetually having a bad day -- and I'm really not. I do love me some Emerson thought -- any Amelia Peabody fans around? I shall have to look around again for something more generic, possible with trowels and/or shovels.
