From the Field: Daily Life at Mule Creek

Preservation Archaeology Blog

Down in a Hole — 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.

Fiber making — The guys making yucca fiber at dusk. We gathered raw materials near the site and have an ongoing traditional sandal contest.

Dinner! — A traditional low-country boil for dinner, right on the table. Note the field baby.

Windy Day — Zoe (University of Vermont) on a particularly windy day.

Plastered floor — 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).

Washed Artifacts — 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.

Wall and floor — 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.

Site Yoga — Meg’s crew likes to limber up in the late afternoon. The rest of us generally gawk and take pictures.

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