On Monday we spent the class working on our final projects. It was a quite day without any digging. The next dig day is going to be spent repairing the site because of rain damage.

On Wednesday we were stuck inside due to rain the previous night. We began to clean artifacts that we recovered previously. The other team finished cleaning the skeletons and also glued back on one of the babies fingers that was chopped off by a pick axe. My team worked on a plaster 3D art piece that was very frail and required a gentle touch.

On Tuesday we began to fix up some previous squares because they were damaged by a rainstorm. We also prepared the squares for more rain to come by putting tarps up to cover the squares. It was quite muddy and slow working.

Today my team worked on articulating a plaster mural that was broken into many pieces. We discovered it last Friday but extricated it on Tuesday. It is very delicate and quite difficult to clean. The other team helped clean our skeletons while we were cleaning our piece.


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Today we worked on cleaning the skeletons. We also had to take measurements of the different bones in order to determine gender and age. We were only able to clean 2 major bones.

On Friday we were mainly working in the new square which is located next to the other team in a corner. The last thing we had to do in the previous square was to remove the skeletons to the classroom fro closer observation and measurements on Monday. We were able to move a good amount of dirt in the new square.

On Wednesday my team's main focus was to finish leveling off our entire square. This was one of the lasts steps to closing out our current sqaure and moving on to the new one. The longest part was articulating the skeletons because we were not able to move them to get dirt out of the way.