End of the penultimate week of excavation for the field school, and it was a good week. The unit I was working on has been finished (except for recording the stratigraphy), with a final depth of 115cm. It's deep enough that my partner and I need a bucket to step on before we can get out.
We ended up with 5 different sediment layers; the first was the modern ground surface, then a black organic stained level, next was the shell midden, then the ancient ground surface and finally a sandy sediment from the ancient marine beach.
The sandy beach sediment is interesting because it means that in the past (it's down 100cm so it was a long time ago) the ocean came up to our site, whereas now it is kilometers away.
Finds in our unit included a lot of incised pebbles and cobbles, mostly made of sandstone. The patterns inscribed into the rock are most often very faint and hard to see. To see some pictures of them and other finds, check out the SFU field school Instagram and Facebook pages that you can access though the link for the SFU field school 2016 in the permanent links on the main page.
The other most common kind of artifact that we found were small bone bi-points (worked to make points on both ends) that were probably used for fishing.
Then of course we found lots of fish and mammal bones, fire cracked rock and shell.
One more week of field work, and then it's a couple of weeks of lab work back at SFU.
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