Another day of excavating and it was beautiful. Today was a sunny, 70ish degree day with a slight breeze, Mom and I actually were chilly at one point.
We continued excavating unit one and extended the trench we had started last week. Today we did not find as many artifacts but we did find a nice piece of chert that has a notch, possibly from being worked with a smaller tool. Once this is cleaned it will be easier to tell. (excuse the dirty fingernails)
I'm really going to start looking into the chert a lot more and maybe do some geology research on what makes the chert different colors, where all of those different colors come from whether they are in Ohio or elsewhere. SO far I think I have found 5 different colors. I know that Pink chert is typically from
Flint Ridge Ohio. I have found black, white, different grays, pinks, a dark red, and a lot in between. Once I have finished the excavation stage of this project I will wash everything and catalog it all to death and begin the geology stage where I can go in and maybe make an idealized map of where the different colors of chert are located, or at least better understand why there are different colors.
We also saw a lot of wildlife today. We scared a deer, saw migrating frogs, A wild turkey called out to us and then ran away, a snake crossed our path and a larger frog made a home in the flooded tarp that was over the top of the pit. Oh and a very pretty butterfly and hummingbird came for a visit.
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