Right. So another new year out at Wildcat. If you've never been to Dayton, there just aren't enough words in the English language to describe it. It's hot, it's so humid as to be damp, and it doesn't really smell too nice. Hmm, a hot, sweaty, stinking...I'll let you decide which body part is the best analogy for this...
Okay, complaining about Dayton aside.
The field is pretty much the way I left it last year, which is good. I'd post pictures, but my camera is acting all weird on me. I'll see if I can't get it working again and get something up here. But the upshot is: the weeds are waist high (and growing like...uhm...weeds...thanks to all the rain in the last few weeks), I can't see the poison ivy through all the cover, and the humidity/dew means I'm soaked to my thighs by the time I get anywhere. It's awesome.
Nothing too much exciting has been going on yet: chased out some anomalies on the far side of the field. As expected, three 2x2s later, they're just a pile of magnetic rocks, likely dumped while the gravel company leveled a road just outside the field.
Wildcat, if I haven't told you before, is on a ridge overlooking the Miami Valley. We're located just one terrace down from the top, and the field slopes towards a small no-named creek. The site, predictably, is at the top of the slope, with the bottom being choked with marshy grasses and some young trees that are trying to reclaim the field now that it's not being plowed. I'm supposed to be spending this week, and last week too, trying to get a handle on the stratigraphy of the lower half of the field. However, it's been raining, and the marshy area is...well...marshy. All the shovel tests have been filling with water, which makes drawing a profile very difficult. So I've been pacing off the units, sticking my shovel in the ground, getting flooded, and wandering off to the next unit, trying to find some high ground to get something done. As I'm updating this at 10:30, you can tell how useful that's been.
Welcome to Undead Naked Archaeology
Alright, a quick introduction, scroll down for actual posts:
This is where I'll update what I'm up to in the field, post pictures, or just vent about how much I hate poison ivy.
Why Undead Naked Archaeology? It's pretty simple really...I like zombies. But also, archaeologists have a bunch of striking similarities to zombies.
We often are dressed in tattered/worn clothing. We frequently smell bad. I in particular tend to speak in grunts (especially in the morning). Often as the heat scrambles our brains we shamble about muttering incoherently. We crave delicious brains. We also swarm like zombies...in a phase I archaeology project we're scattered widely, low density (just like a stage I zombie outbreak). When something shows up...we go to phase II. Denser...and with more of us. Again, like a zombie outbreak reaching stage II. Finally, as we find "stuff" supervisors and technicians alike come out of the woodwork to absolutely flood the field with zombies. I mean archaeologists. Mmm stage/phase III.
As for the "naked" part...well it just sounds cool...that's all. "Undead Naked Archaeology" sounds like those lame "co-ed naked xyx" shirts. So I'm kind of making fun of myself...I do that sometimes.
Posts below!
This is where I'll update what I'm up to in the field, post pictures, or just vent about how much I hate poison ivy.
Why Undead Naked Archaeology? It's pretty simple really...I like zombies. But also, archaeologists have a bunch of striking similarities to zombies.
We often are dressed in tattered/worn clothing. We frequently smell bad. I in particular tend to speak in grunts (especially in the morning). Often as the heat scrambles our brains we shamble about muttering incoherently. We crave delicious brains. We also swarm like zombies...in a phase I archaeology project we're scattered widely, low density (just like a stage I zombie outbreak). When something shows up...we go to phase II. Denser...and with more of us. Again, like a zombie outbreak reaching stage II. Finally, as we find "stuff" supervisors and technicians alike come out of the woodwork to absolutely flood the field with zombies. I mean archaeologists. Mmm stage/phase III.
As for the "naked" part...well it just sounds cool...that's all. "Undead Naked Archaeology" sounds like those lame "co-ed naked xyx" shirts. So I'm kind of making fun of myself...I do that sometimes.
Posts below!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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