Updates for begining of November

Just a few updates to start off the month.
Currently I am in the middle of labeling all of the artifacts. It is a very long and tedious process that is taking a good chunk of my time. I am struggling with the labeling supplies that I have to use currently and battling with Paraloid B-72. This is the base coat for all of my labels and then the writing itself is done with India ink and a fountain pen...torture really. Labeling artifacts must be a level of hell Dante forgot to put in.
Any way, I am on artifact 460 and have a few hundred left to go. Mother was ever so wonderful and helpful by coming in last weekend to help me label a couple hundred artifacts! Where would I be without her?
Here are some other updates that are important but that I don't really want to go into very much:

• I wrote and submitted Chapter 1 of thesis
• I was denied Copeland Funding which translates into not having the funds to do more carbon testing
• I am working on my Theory chapter, specifically looking at mounds and earthworks
• I am in the process of organizing my other chapters and research plans for the chert which I will probably do some statistical analysis on as well

Stay tuned for more updates!!

Little update

In the past week or so I have been working on writing on my IS. I have done a little bit of lab work but right now I am waiting on the arrival of my labeling materials/supplies. I ordered them today, hopefully they should be here by early next week!
We identified two pieces of fired clay in the collection, one piece has a chert flake embedded in it. This further supports the idea that these pieces of clay were fired accidentally in a fire, possibly one used for heat treating chert.
My radio carbon/AMS dates came back from Beta Analytic, it turns out that the charcoal from unit 1 is less than 100 years old, sad but not terrible. It would have been nice to have a really old date to correlate to the site but we figure this was from a lightening struck tree or something of that nature.
Prof. Kardulias and I discussed how I am going to analysis the chert and I plan on doing some calibrations and measurements of a sample of pieces, perhaps separated by chert type. This data can later be inputed into SPSS (a statistics software).
Labeling will come first however so I am just waiting on the shipment!
Stay tuned for more updates