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Location: Naperville, Illinois, United States

I'm a freshman at the University of Wyoming majoring in anthropology and minoring in German and geology. I'm currently playing in a V:tM game Friday nights and trying to work in Kalamar when I can.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

The Second Tenday

Pain and more pain, but it's good for me, right?

We spent the predicted 2-3 days finishing mapping at the High Plains Stone Circle Site, then started opening the Old Stone Barn Site. This site is thusly named because it is the site of the oldest ranch in Pine Bluffs and the lower half-ish of the old stone barn still stands. It has to be the most annoying site I've been at so far because we had to break every couple of hours to clean the 3-5 different species of stickers out of our pants, shoes, and socks. There were even small patches of jumping cactus in addition to the usual prickly pear populations.

We had to map in the barn, the house foundation, the still-unidentified depression next to the house, and the 'trash midden.' But it can't be too bad since that's where we finally got to do some digging. We dug several shovel tests and three test-pits and didn't find much, though in Test Unit B we did find part of a late-1800's-early-1900's pocket watch. We also surveyed the square-mile-ish of land around the the primary site. That was a long, hot day and we were rewarded with a couple of mason jars and a complete Heinz bottle... just... not rewarding at all.

Also, I got the wonderful opportunity to participate in the so-called death-march to Petch Springs. It begins with climbing Gurney Peak Fortress (a big ol' butte) and then continues as a mile-and-a-half walk to Petch Springs. I didn't make it to Petch Springs, but I did make it up Gurney Peak Fortress, which means a lot more to me, really, since it includes inching along ledges and climbing nearly shear rock faces.

We had another rash of cow attacks this tenday. They tried to stampede through camp and Houston chased them off and then returned triumphantly carrying a tipi pole discarded by a previous field-schooler.

Other than that, this tenday was fairly uneventful, just slogging out the work. I look forward to doing honest-to-God excavation in the last tenday up at the buffallo jump.

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EDIT: http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=15800 check out this link, it's the Mythbusters working with our anthro department.