ARCHAEOLOGY CHRONICLES 14

today we spent an hour going over our weekly readings boring. then we spent the next two hours doing the stratigraphy profile of our shovel test pit. i can't believe it took that long. my partner is very finicky about paperwork and getting everything just so, but she is terrible at stratigraphic profiling. she's frankly lazy about it. anyway after lunch we set up a new unit. in the middle of hay. which was fun because it was different. so we set-up our 1 meter square on the site grid with nails (these nails are about a cm thick and a foot long). we then lined up nails on the outside of the unit to tie the string around so we would not have to worry about corner nails coming loose. this took up a suprising amount of time too. then we took a photo of our surface layer of trampled hay, and filled out all the paperwork. surface done. then we got out level 1 paperwork and claered and screened the hay. we found a brick, and lots of plastic, and some peanut shells. nothing really exciting. we then quit for the day because it was looking like rain. tomorrow we go to work on the hay roots. at Barbary Coast i will be excavating in 10 cm layers. so natural layers will be ignored during our excavation. my one complaint about the site is the fact that it is in the midst of thorny trees. ouch. they poke.