Our crews continued work in the midden deposits on the east end -- discovering many additional fragments of pottery, animal bones, and stone tools. The large pottery sherd below is from a large wide rimmed plate (similar to what we might call a "soup plate") -- you can see the "well" on the lower right of the sherd.

Another large sherd shown below is from a large pan -- the bottom is impressed with the fabrics used to line the mold when the pan was created.

Over on the east end, other student crew members continued exploring the large pits -- one of which is starting to look more like a ditch or trench.

Among the more interesting finds from today was a large portion of a broken cooking pot with handle.

The new unit we opened on Saturday to explore the midden further did prove to contain the same type of dense garbage deposit -- the photo below shows the top of this artifact deposit just below the plowzone.

In the late morning, my nephew Keaton showed up to assist with the excavations.

Below, Keaton shows off one of his discoveries to Brady and Kendra.

Over at the mound, we continued our explorations today -- some more photos and news tomorrow. One of our visitors today was a male purseweb spider -- rather ominous looking, but just a curious neighbor.