Alright well the the class itself is
just
is designed to teach them basic
archaeological field methods; and
that's much better done in a field
situation than in a classroom.
It's really boring to talk about
traveling and making maps, a lot more
interesting to do so.
But the actual research, we're doing this
represents the second year
of our work at the site after the site
that's on the the polar mountain preserve.
Um what we had done last year was
established when the site was occupied
a lot of the diagnostic artifacts which
are the artifacts that you can tell when
they were made in use.
A lot of those suggested, a late 1800s
occupation. We have found some rubber
buttons.
Some bits of ceramic, a certain
glass bottles like a glass bottle neck
from a ketchup bottle that was made from
techniques that were used in late 1800s
us are able to define when the site was
occupied.
This year we just wanted a larger
sampling to get a better sense of
what activities were going on the site.
In particular was the site, a
residential site where folks were
living
for a long period of time or was it a
special activity side
know where people might be coming for
certain certain reason certain
activities like sheep pasturing and that
sort of thing.
And not for those other sorts of
activities.
So far i mean we haven't been able
to go through the artifacts in any
detail yet.
But so far suggesting that people were
living here
for a decent amount of time. Just the
diversity of artifacts again once
different kinda ceramics
I suggesting you had your full
complement of serving vessels and
consuming vessels
but also a lot of, you know, a couple
children's toys which... Which looks like
you know kids were up here which
does make me want to think that it was 
some kind specialized actively side.
But a lot of that we won't seek 
out until we can spend some time
working with the artifacts.
