Sunday, July 20, 2008

Busy Week!

20 July 2008

We had a very busy week, full of new people and new things to do! On Monday and Tuesday, we were joined by 5 new people: Becca Terry, who will be starting a post-doc with the Hadly lab in the fall, Liz, Tony, and Clara, and Uma Ramakrishnan, a visiting researcher/collaborator/former Hadly lab post-doc who is now an assistant professor in India. We started a new excavation in Samwel Cave- actually two, since one of them did not go down very deep, so we finished it almost as soon as we started! But, one excavation is still on-going, and it looks like it will be a fruitful deposit. We found an artiodactyl jaw with some teeth in it on Friday!

Excavating is hard work, though, and this year's excavations are much more difficult than last year. We are generally excavating while laying on our stomachs, which limits arm movement. So, we were all pretty sore for much of last week, though Ariel and I have been sieving bones rather than excavating for the past few days, so we both have more or less recovered. And, it looks like we'll be done with field work a bit earlier than planned, perhaps by Friday. So, this might be the last post from the field! And luckily, once I get home I will be able to upload photos from my camera, so stay tuned for the next post!

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