Our days continue to be busy as we look towards closing our project down next week. Today, we had a distinguished visitor from the University of Alabama -- Dr. Jim Knight. Jim has visited our project every summer and we appreciate his wisdom and advice.
Below, Kim continues to clean up the bottom of one of our large pits on the west end.
Later in the day, the carefully cleaned up pit shows the collection of artifacts at the bottom -- including an interesting section of deer antler at the left. The tines had been removed for use as tools and the rest discarded.
Intriguingly, a section of antler tine that had been scored and snapped was found later in the day in this same pit.
We also discovered a fascinating piece of stone tool from the midden on the east end -- this expedient cutting tool is made from Dover chert. This particular type of highly valued flint is found on the western edge of the Nashville Basin -- near Dover, Tennessee.
Our mound excavations continue to produce some exciting results -- our second unit in the mound shows some clear mound construction fill at the upper left of the photo below. To the right and lower portion, we appear to have exposed the edge of a mound construction stage.
Finally, as we close out one of our few remaining days -- we are constantly working on notes and records. Below Tyler and Jaime record the profiles of their unit with instruction from Teresa.
