F104 in F100

Today was good. I screened all day and took the F100 notes (F100 is the entire site of Wolf Village; the little site our crew is working on is a structure named F104; so the name of our crew's site is F104 in F100. All of the other features sediment layers we find in F104 get their own F numbers, so the layer we were working on taking down in most of the trenches today is called F112 in F104 in F100. I know. Archaeologists.). Screening means I was in a perpetual cloud of dust as I poured everyone's buckets of dirt into the screen and shook it like crazy to get it down to the bigger chunks of stuff in it. It was actually really fun, but now my skin is super dry and sensitive from being caked in dust all day. I've been blowing mud out of my nose since we got back to the lab today. But, it was fun :) I really love archaeology.

Here are some pictures of F104. We're digging down to a shallow pithouse feature that has a really beautiful hearth and some pretty neat lithics. We've also found a bunch of pottery sherds (not shards; there is a difference), one of which was corrugated (woo hoo!) and another of which was a rim (cool too!). My crew's a lot of fun too. We have one of the two boys in the entire field school (of about 21 people, not including the crew chiefs, who happen to all be girls), so that's handy when it comes to killing spiders and screening. He doesn't like screening, but he's good at it.

Pictures!

Our site and crew, with crew chief in the back with the blue hood

The sweet hearth

Pretty cool, huh? I told you. There's a big chunk of adobe in the middle of it, but before Kari mapped and took everything out, there were tons of chunks of adobe. Way cool. Well, not for Kari. She had to kneel them when she was cleaning the hearth for photographing. But anyways...

So yeah. Archaeology rocks. 

Chad's doing well too. He has class everyday Sunday through Thursday, church on Friday, and the day off on Saturday. He's really liking his classes, and he's talking to people more in the city, and understanding more of what they're saying. He's got two years of Arabic under his belt, but that's class Arabic. It's much different when you're in Egypt talking to Egyptians. That's why they're there, and he's learning stuff every day :) He was good before, but he's getting a lot of good experience. 

Anyways, now I need to go to bed. I am soooo tired from today. Sitting down at 9pm to talk to Chad tonight was the first time I've really chilled all day. 

Hope you're all well. Pray that this weather figures out soon that's it May and needs to stop being windy and cold.