RECORDING, LABELING, DRAWING, OH MY!-by Athena L.-Period 1

Athena L.
10/15/07
Period 1
Dig Diary:

Today, Monday, was another fabulous day of recording, labeling, drawing, etc. Sounds like hard work? It’s really not; just a lot of repetition and numbers. Today Zena was gone so it was up to Sean and I to complete recording for “The Dirt.” We finished photographing our artifacts and we finished drawing them on the master artifact map. After all that I have concluded that our group, who excavated quadrant B, got the short end of the stick. Compared to the other quadrants, we found diddly-squat. Or did we? Hmmm… The reason I say this is because all we found is a large rock that was chipped and SEVERAL pieces of chipped pieces of rock. To us kids that may seem like nothing, but to archaeologists in the real world, chipped pieces of rock say a lot about an ancient culture, climate, or environment. If only we middle-schoolers had an equal level of education, experience, and expertise as real-world archaeologists, then we could draw an important conclusion from these pieces of chipped rocks. Maybe we can. I don’t know. But I do know that even if we can’t find the answer to whichever hominid group we have, we can make an educated guess as to what they are.