dig diaries days 1-5 nick l.

Day 1 We started to map out the dig site… we decided to dig near by a garden because most of the artifacts were centered in this vicinity. We observed many particular rocks non native and chipped we believe that they are from either the Old Stone Age or the New Stone Age. The artifacts could also be from the Homo sapiens sapiens. We are going to excavate a 2 cubic meter hole. Then go down about 1 foot because the area were at seems like the rain has eroded the landscape pretty thoroughly so we shouldn’t have to dig far. My hopes are that we won’t get any more rain coming down. The soils soft all ready and I don’t think it needs to get softer. This dig is on some prime land seeing as this is my first time with this type of dig where the artifacts are so numerous, I’m kind of worried about making a mistake and destroying the dig site.
Day 2 We’ve begun to dig…we started by locating and collecting all the artifacts from the surface. D.R. Pugh and I found what looks like a small hand axe but we still have not collected enough data to make an analysis. We also found a as D.R. will would call it “small rock shilling” unfortunately we have not found any organic material. Now we have truly started the dig a search for truth in a pile of dirt. As we began to sift down a layer I saw a piece of rock that looked like a hand axe we marked it up and continued our search. Buckets loaded we began to sift through the small amount of dirt that we uncovered. Going very steadily me and will sifted the dirt from quadrant A. during the sifting we found one valuable artifact that we over looked on our original dig. It was a good thing we sifted I thought. In the aftermath of this seemingly successful day I believe that my worries about destroying the site were uncalled for. One of my goals for this dig to find the how why and where phases of a society as so notably described by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Day 3 We struck gold! Though we did not have anything more eventful than the other days it was amazing how fast that changed. We started out mid afternoon there was not a cloud to be seen but we where frozen solid. It was the wind, the ice cold chill that swept over the dig site. We couldn’t sift because of this chill, so everything went extremely slow. D.R. Pugh and I worked in our section on the outskirts of the site. Completely boring, we did not find a single thing or if we did it I cannot remember what it was. So when we were about to wrap up D.R. Ostini made a miraculous discovery. “Look” she said “it’s a log!” we all rushed over to see it. Though unfortunately we had to leave for the next day, which was after the holidays. I was a bit nervous about doing this because even though it’s protected from the rain by the tent puddles could form and it wouldn’t be much fun if we had a lake for a dig site.
Day 4 There we were back from the holidays checking for an unknown artifact in an unknown place that was stolen. There it was our needle in a hay stack. It was a tooth we all thought it had not been there last before but our doubts were cast aside in light of the great find. Still I find it hard to believe but I guess I’ll have to wait until we get it carbon dated. Alas the dig goes on its kind of hard to believe that it’s been four days it seems like we’ve been working for months. Today our corner turned interesting D.R. Pugh and I were working at the dig site and we found a red and blue bead this makes me feel like the people who lived and worked here were of the more advanced human cultures. It was quite an experience to be holding something that may or may not have been held by someone else thousands of years ago. I also believe that this might be the answer to part of my goal, the where stage of society. Another possibility is that we are just discovering that stage as I type. We may never know, but I can try.
Day 5 Today we finally switched sites D.R. will and I moved from the outskirts of the site to a place right in the center. We found today another red and blue bead as we marked the beginning of level two. Other than this the day has been pretty uneventful. I am starting to feel that being in that far off corner made me feel more secure than I should have been. I do not think I was prepared for the bead. I did not relies it was there until later, being used to the uneventful side of the pit. My hopes are that we may be able to carbon date the organic material that we have found. In both the tree branch and in the tooth to compare the difference in the data. So that if a kids tooth came out and they threw it in the dig site. I believe now that I was correct in assuming that this is the where part in society because it was not just one person making one bead. I think it was one person making many beads.