Day one

We didn't have access to the internet while we were at home over Christmas break, so I wasn't able to update the blog until now. We had a great Christmas and enjoyed our stay at home, it wasn't long enough.

Being back in the cabin feels like we never left, which is making it strange to be here. Even though we went home and slept in our bed, sat on our couch, cooked in our kitchen; being back feels like we were never there. One major plus to this trip is that we brought our Playstation 2 with us. We brought a couple video games, but we mainly brought it to hook up to the TV and watch TV show DVDs and movies without having to watch them on one of our computers. This time we brought more DVDs then we will probably be able to watch so we won’t run out of any this trip. Granted we won’t have as much time on our hands as last trip, but still better safe than sorry. Also, it seems that Jake and I are not responsible for the unnatural amount of rain this summer, it continued to rain even when we left to come home for Christmas. Hopefully that rain will let us dig more this trip. It was raining Sunday morning but cleared up enough for us to dig on the site yesterday.

If the first day on the dig site is any indication of how this trip will go, then fantastic! Even though we could see our breath when we left the cabin yesterday morning, it warmed up quickly by lunch time. During the first trip Jake was focusing on digging within the fence that surrounds the Santa Silvia site that Gordon worked on in the last 80’s early 90’s. This trip Jake is focusing on the area outside the fence that has never been excavated before. We started digging in two 1 meter by 1 meter squares and there were so many artifacts coming out! We pulled out lithics, pieces of obsidian, roof tiles, and a ton of ceramics! Nothing was a complete pot or plate or anything like that, but we pulled out between 65 and 80 pieces yesterday alone! We found more in the first day than we did in the first month last trip! Since everything is broken and there are rocks that were used to create tools and weapons in this location, Jake thinks that maybe we have found were the population would dump their trash. We were down to 30 cm by the time we left yesterday and there is no way that erosion would be able to move that much, that deep, and that far away from the original site. We will see what today will bring!
Hope all is well at home!

Mandy & Jake