Work day 3

I was way too tired to post last night. Sorry if you were actually disappointed. I'm pretty tired today too, so this might be kind of short. I don't know yet. Yesterday and today have mostly consisted of emptying out the tunnel dirt so we can make it down to the cavern at the end of the tunnel. We haven't started sifting yet, but we will once we make it into the cavern. Most of the dirt in the tunnel is from it was first excavated in the early 1900s, but the dirt all fell back in, so it's been pretty well picked over. Anything we've been finding is just pieces of pottery, but we can take anything of those that we want as long as they don't have any paintings or special markings on them.

I did make it down in to the tunnel yesterday. Finally got up the courage to make the jump over the ladder.... then they knocked out the fencing and put a smaller ladder in that didn't require any jumping to get too. lol. Oh well!

The tunnel is very large, long, dark, and damp. It's really neat though. Mostly what I did yesterday was to help make stairs for us to walk up and down, and I did a bit more of that this morning. The rest of today,though, I spent emptying the bags of dirt that the crane brought out of the tunnel, and sending empty ones back down. We did dig through the dirt some, but like i said above, anything we found was just pieces. We found a lot of bones today; a mix of human and animal. It is hard to tell anything from a bunch of random bones. Any dating comes from the pottery styles. I am learning a lot of interesting facts from the professors about archaeology. They are incredibly knowledgeable.

Well, I'm going to head off to bed pretty quick here. It is only about 7:40, but we get up at 5:30 and do a lot of hard work, so my bed time here is about 9pm. So weird for me.... goodnight all!