We started our second volunteer day with a cloudy sky and threat of showers, but decided to go ahead and charge ahead with excavation. As things turned out, we didn't get any rain -- and it was the most pleasant day for digging we've had so far.
With fourteen of our crew and eight volunteers, we managed to accomplish a great deal during the day. Our thanks to our volunteers...
Below, Heather and Tom Carden are screening artifacts from two of our new units...
Emily's parents also joined us for the day...
And, a couple of our favorite field school alums joined us for the day. Below Ryan McNutt (at left) examines a feature outside the frame while Chris Hogan and son Drew work at the screen with Nikki and Brittany.
Bill Miller also joined us again today.
Several of us continued work on the wall trench structure today -- finally identifying part of three walls. The first photo below shows the units. The second shows the three trenches highlighted in yellow.
We'll open two or more additional units on Monday to further expose this structure -- hoping to catch at least two more of the corners of this structure by the end of our project in three weeks.
Perhaps our most spectacular find of the day was a mandible (lower jaw) from a canid in a trash pit adjacent to the wall trench structure. This is probably from a Native American dog -- but we'll wait until our animal bone expert Dr. Peres returns on Monday to decide whether this might also be from a wolf or coyote.
We are taking a break from our fieldwork on Sunday -- we'll be back with a new report on our discoveries on Monday evening.