Week 1

Week 1

We started off the week by setting up camp at the beautiful Crescent Bay Hunt Club 

Learning the Basics - Pacing, an important skill, is harder than you'd think. Students learn to pace 10 meters for mapping and survey

Shovel testing demonstration by our fearless leader - shovel test dug and determining now we're determining soil color

Thursday and Friday we were putting those pacing skills to work and adding some new ones - We went up to Crescent Bay and shovel tested the north field - the students did a great job - we found a lot of different types of artifacts. Because of all their hard work, we can now place our excavation units next week in the best place possible.

First shovel tests of all five transects

One more done --- time to back fill

Note taking and paperwork 

Screening to find the smaller artifacts

Kat checks artifacts

Starting a new shovel test

Looks like we found something

Almost done - getting near the north end of the field

That B-horizon soil was hard to screen but they got through it

Last one on Transect 2

Soil colors