From the Field: Daily Life at Mule Creek

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Jake (Hendrix College) and Zoe (University of Vermont) excavate in a burned room at Fornholt.

We’re getting the students involved in producing blog posts that highlight an interesting aspect of each day’s field work.  As a supplement, I’ll be posting short photo essays of daily field life in the field, dust and all.

The guys making yucca fiber at dusk. We gathered raw materials near the site and have an ongoing traditional sandal contest.
A traditional low-country boil for dinner, right on the table. Note the field baby.
Zoe (University of Vermont) on a particularly windy day.
Only socks allowed on the well-plastered floor excavated by Will (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Chris (Arizona State University), with the help of Dr. SuS Eckert (Texas A&M).
We spend afternoons washing artifacts, which we then set out to dry in these screen. The humidity here hovers around eight percent; they dry quickly.
An eroded plaster floor and associated wall. Some of these deposits are pretty banged up, but the architecture is giving us a significant amount of information on remodeling sequences.
Meg’s crew likes to limber up in the late afternoon. The rest of us generally gawk and take pictures.

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