A Week at the Dig

Well, another week down and not a lot has happened.  I take that back.  A lot has happened but we haven’t really found anything of significance.  We are just finding a lot of fire-cracked rock associated with the numerous stains in the trenches.  One of the leaders of the dig, a guy from BYU named [...]

Posted at 3:17 pm on January 28, 2007 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

Just More Digging

For Indigo, I will explain that a projectile point is like an arrowhead, but generally is a more generic description.  For example, projectile points include arrowheads, dart points, bird points, and atlatl points with the difference being the type of animal being hunted.  A projectile point is also distinguished by the fact that it is diagnostic.  The [...]

Posted at 9:09 pm on January 18, 2007 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Archaeology | read on

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