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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Walking to Work
I walked to work today (3 km) and as a reward I got some excellent photos. Enjoy these sights of the commute. I worked with the small finds again today. Small finds are anything that looks unique, vs bulk finds which are thousands shards of pottery. Bulk finds take on the jigsaw effect, and need to be assembled before they can be used in publications. Small finds usually need to be cleaned and then can be analyzed. Everyone had a good day today. We worked with some of the cooler artifacts, the origin of a coin was determined and an inscription was figured out. I can't give more details then that, but let's just say there are a lot of big discoveries being made in Butrint.
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Gorgeous pictures. You see a lot of things when you "walk to work".
ReplyDeleteCan you describe the bottom 2 pictures?
One question: Are most "digs" done this way - meaning that the archaeology part is done up front and then the analysis is done later?
The two bottom photos are of some of the birds around the site. The first one is a photo of just outside the tower in one of the earlier photos. They dive bomb around the tower and glare at us when we come around. The bottom one is a birds nest just outside the tower window where we work. Most digs work this way, as they only have a limited time to get everything out of the ground. Hernandez spends a lot of time in the trenches, and they might be excavating in four different places, so he can't look at everything.
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