Spending the summer in the vast lands of Utah and Colorado as intern for the NPS
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Dig it up
One of our outlier sites is still being excavated. So far, it has taken 3 years to dig up this great kiva (a big round structure in the ground that served as a religious/ceremonial center and also a warm home in the winter) and they still haven't finished! I went there on my day off the other day and got to chat a bit with the archeologist. Very cool! I might note that he was wearing this awesome explorer hat caked in dirt. So fitting, haha! Anyway, I regret not getting a picture of this great hat but I did get some of the site. He showed me an arrowhead that he had just found as well as some other broken tools. Everything that has been dug up will be backfilled once it is all logged and mapped. I've just hope that one day they will let me join them on a big for a day. Such facinating stuff!
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