Weeks 4-6

The Crew

Taking down the units ... down deeper that is - watch out for mulberry

Screening away ... just look at all the pretty artifacts

Moon rising over the pond .... sorry about the sideways view

Some of the local fauna

F10-86 ... this beautiful feature had a lot of exciting stuff - their are layers of shell, fish scale, FCR and lots of bones - even more scales

Ah yes, speaking of 10-86, there was also a Bison Vert

Oneota Dog Burial

Some pretty pottery coming out of 10-10 ... needless to say, Seth was very excited

What else was coming out of 10-10 ... oh yeah a house, the left side of the photo shows a series of flags marking the location of post-molds that were part of the west wall of a wigwam style house similar to two already found on the site in previous excavations. A series of post molds in the southwest corner angle away from the wall, it is likely that these were for internal benches.

10-07: Wall trench w/ posts, running into a ? center post?

10-07 - excavated - floated - and now the basin

Got to close the site somehow ... might as well make it fun and fast

Plus I have to earn my new name

Week 4: Vigit-pocalypse - 20,000 leagues under the pond

The Storm looms overhead ... its gonna be a nasty one

All the remaining campers made it in and bunkered down in the cabin

Remnants of the Vigit ... See week one blog for a better idea of what it looked like before

THE NEXT DAY

Some of the trees on the path up the site didn't look much better than the tents

There's plenty of water in the units ... luckily the tarps held pretty well

Water was the least of our problems in some of the units (10-04 and 10-05)

Tuesday wasn't all bad ... the storm provided plenty of raw materials for our leaf crowns (provided by Gibby, thanks) - Here are the TA's and Dr. Jeske modeling off the new fashion trend our field school has started, give it 6 months and the whole nation will be doing it

Week 3: Excavations Begin

Week 3 - The Excavations Begin -

Brush Clearing ... that pile only got bigger

Need to get the equipment up somehow

Getting the Equipment Ready to go

7 2m x 2m excavations were opened up on at CBHC - another 3 at KCVS

Work is proceeding very nicely as we're all reaching the B Horizon :-)

After Class several of us went to Aztalan and Indian Mounds Park to check out the other local sites

Walking up The Southwest Mound at Aztalan

The rebuilt Palisade of Aztalan ... just picture it, but longer and covered in Azatlan Brick

The Campfire

Week Two

Week Two - Survey

Foggy Morning At the Camp Site

Preparing to Survey at the Koshkonong Village Creek Site

Shovel Probing - Can you see the plow scars?

Woodland Site?

Shovel Probe between JE1002 and the Blue Heron Site

A View of the Koshkonong Creek from the Koshkonong Creek Village Site

Shovel Probes at the Koshkonong Creek Village Site

- The Local Area -

Kumlien Mounds

A view of Crabapple Point and the Koshkonong Creek Outlet into Lake Koshkonong

Turtle Lake

Rice Lake

Sweet Lake

Week 1: Welcome to the Field

Day 1: 6/1/10

After a morning of orientation, loading equipment and a nice long drive we finally arrived to the field school.

Upon our arrival at the site we found the essentials. First things First .... Time to set up camp. Afterwards we can get down to some real archaeology.

Once the camp was set, everyone was settled in, and a short introduction it was time to where the next six weeks would be spent.

Day 3: Learning to Dig round holes

Shovel Probe Demonstration

Name that color .... 10 YR?/?