home stretch?

29 June 2007

Well, it feels like the home stretch to me. Carrie left on Thursday and Xue and Ronny arrived early in the week, so we now have the “permanent” field crew in place. We excavated and sieved this week. We are down to Level VIIb, which is where we found the horse tooth in the main deposit. We haven’t found anything quite so flashy again- in fact, we’re not finding many large animal teeth at all. Tomorrow, we will probably go back to the pit and see if we can hit bottom. After that, it’s time for all of the little details necessary to finish up the summer (with the possibility of additional excavation)- vegetation surveys, mapping the floor of the pit and the cave, characterizing the stratigraphy of the pit, etc (with breaks for 4th of July and my friend Nicole’s wedding!).