Tuesday, July 12, 2011
12 July 2011 - Not too late for Polar Bears
Today was an exciting day for some. We found another feature in Trench 4 and we reached 100 Units! Yay. But Danny couldn't make it today to celebrate, due to the fact that he beasted it on the backfill pile yesterday. That sucks, cuz he was bringing the champagne and sparkling grape juice for the youngins. Other than that it was mega hot and it was basically normal. Lauren Bell found an awesome piece of Ironicity. John Krebs actually picked up a shovel instead of food and went to work on a unit! But Brian Mabelitini laid out the units kinda crooked, so Krebs has to work more muahahaha. Thank goodness for the chain of command. Anyways, other than that, nothing big, next week is backfilling and Danny basically annihilated 1/4 of the pile by himself. Next week should be a piece of cake backfilling the dirt back into the many trenches and units we opened up. Hopefully it won't take all week. Also, mosquitos are killers out here. They basically want to eat us alive and bury us in the units that we have dug. P.S. I need to start bringing 2 sandwiches to the site. John Krebs brings basically a whole fruit bowl to the site plus a huge hoagie and a 2 liter thing of coke and a big grab bag of chips. Gotta be balanced I suppose. Haha. Sorry, Here are some pictures.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
7 July 2011, Nearly 100 Units!
Today was like 90 degrees out, if not more. If it were any hotter, my thick asian hair would've fallen off my head.
Krebs snack of the day was a celery stick. Tomorrow it will be a Tops Hamburger
Everyone worked on their respective units and I believe we reached 89 or 90 Units today. Our ultimate goal is to reach 100 Units, which is a huge milestone for us. It would be better if it were at 117 Units because we honestly started at 17. But thats ok. 100 Units is almost in our reach, and we got one week to do it! Nike this shiz. We started doing a preliminary backfill into our completed trenches and blocks. To do this, we had a student start backfilling in trenches all day, and the rest of us were to screen into the trenches. It was a brilliant idea! Also, we are gonna figure out the square meterage? of the whole site that we dug out. Because we believe that we covered more units and moved more dirt than any of the other Field Schools combined, but not just square meterage, but also we gotta account for depth wise too, because the other schools are going deeper. But we know we have this one in the bag.
Achievement Unlocked 35G - Over 400 photos taken over the summer! More to come for sure.
Mark and Richard
Danny, Paul, and Travis (aka Scuba Steve)
Field Director Brian getting off the lounge chair to help
Joey pondering his next poem
Travis and Lauren working the Unit from hell
Krebs snack of the day was a celery stick. Tomorrow it will be a Tops Hamburger
Everyone worked on their respective units and I believe we reached 89 or 90 Units today. Our ultimate goal is to reach 100 Units, which is a huge milestone for us. It would be better if it were at 117 Units because we honestly started at 17. But thats ok. 100 Units is almost in our reach, and we got one week to do it! Nike this shiz. We started doing a preliminary backfill into our completed trenches and blocks. To do this, we had a student start backfilling in trenches all day, and the rest of us were to screen into the trenches. It was a brilliant idea! Also, we are gonna figure out the square meterage? of the whole site that we dug out. Because we believe that we covered more units and moved more dirt than any of the other Field Schools combined, but not just square meterage, but also we gotta account for depth wise too, because the other schools are going deeper. But we know we have this one in the bag.
Achievement Unlocked 35G - Over 400 photos taken over the summer! More to come for sure.
Mark and Richard
Danny, Paul, and Travis (aka Scuba Steve)
Joey pondering his next poem
Travis and Lauren working the Unit from hell
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
6 July 2011, Field Trip Day
Today, we visited the Molino site. http://pensacolacolonialfrontiers.blogspot.com/
We toured the area and gained some knowledge about their site. The most valuable information that I gathered is how differently theirs and our techniques are. I guess with anything, everyone has a different style. But the ultimately the goal is the same.
We met back up at the Archaeological Institute on UWF school campus. And all decided to go out to eat for lunch. While a few people got in their cars and left for the place of interest. I was one of those people. As I was heading to the place, I get like over 9,000! phone calls about how someone got into an accident, and it was none other than Steve and another individual. Apparently someone backed into Steve while he was getting out of the parking lot and someone didn't look while backing up and nailed Steve's car right in the kisser. So yeah, that really sucked, good thing both parties were ok and Steve later joined up with the gang to dig again.
We had a pretty exciting day other than that little mishap we had. We had good food for lunch and went to the site with stomachs full and ready for naps but that was not the case. We dug for about 2 hours and then the typical Florida rain came and we closed out and did the rapid packing up. Its basically the equivalent to the two minute drill in football.
Good day and Good Field Trip. I also do not have any photos of the field trip cuz I didn't bring the camera because I'm a suck
We toured the area and gained some knowledge about their site. The most valuable information that I gathered is how differently theirs and our techniques are. I guess with anything, everyone has a different style. But the ultimately the goal is the same.
We met back up at the Archaeological Institute on UWF school campus. And all decided to go out to eat for lunch. While a few people got in their cars and left for the place of interest. I was one of those people. As I was heading to the place, I get like over 9,000! phone calls about how someone got into an accident, and it was none other than Steve and another individual. Apparently someone backed into Steve while he was getting out of the parking lot and someone didn't look while backing up and nailed Steve's car right in the kisser. So yeah, that really sucked, good thing both parties were ok and Steve later joined up with the gang to dig again.
We had a pretty exciting day other than that little mishap we had. We had good food for lunch and went to the site with stomachs full and ready for naps but that was not the case. We dug for about 2 hours and then the typical Florida rain came and we closed out and did the rapid packing up. Its basically the equivalent to the two minute drill in football.
Good day and Good Field Trip. I also do not have any photos of the field trip cuz I didn't bring the camera because I'm a suck
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