Katie wrote up a letter of her credentials this spring in hopes of assisting with the summer dig hosted by Dickson Mounds and Michigan State University. Accepted in, she's been working hard this summer.
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| Screening for artifacts- this technique allows the discovery of artifacts too small to notice while skimming the earth layers, but larger than 1/4 inch in size. This means many small pot sherds, chert flakes, bits of charcoal from fires, clay blobs, and bits of bone. |
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| Pausing for a photo on this hot afternoon. Behind is the shade canopy covering the spot where Katie and Gwen are digging. |
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| All artifacts from this pit feature go into the bag. Later on, they are washed, sorted, and cataloged. Junior volunteers Ronan and Hannah joined in for an hour this day. |
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| The pit feature that Team Paleo has been helping with. They are working with a graduate student from Michigan State University, and learning to differentiate the colors, textures, and subtleties of soil within a feature. This hole goes down about 2 or so feet. |
