{"id":153,"date":"2009-10-02T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-10-05T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T15:06:01","slug":"traveling-ground-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Ground Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

After receiving our transport permits from the Consejo de Arqueolog\u00c3\u00ada (which is a board of 11 eminent archaeologists who regulate the practice of our discipline in Mexico), we embarked on the difficult task of moving all the ground stone we collected during the survey. We loaded 442 tagged bags and 10 individual fragments in two trips from Villa Emiliano Zapata to Xalapa (approximately a two-hour round trip). Fortunately, Rodolfo Parra Ram\u00c3\u00adrez and his undergraduate students had spent a week cleaning and emptying a lab at the Anthropology Institute of the Universidad Veracruzana, which generously granted us access to its facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Natalia<\/a>

Natalia & Jonathan unloading the truck<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Cleaning wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that easy. The lab was full of ceramics, ground stone, skeletons, and loads of\u00c2\u00a0artifacts from a fascinating archaeological site called Quiahuiztlan, excavated by Mario\u00c2\u00a0Navarrete and Ram\u00c3\u00b3n Arellanos in the 90s. Our team had to undertake the difficult task of\u00c2\u00a0sorting and storing the materials in groups, as well as burying ceramics. Yes, burying.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"After<\/a>

After the cleaning!!<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

In Mexico, once analysis is done, archaeologists are supposed to hand in all the artifacts to\u00c2\u00a0INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History). However, their storage spaces were filled decades ago, so the proposed and accepted alternative was to create pottery cemeteries.\u00c2\u00a0Students dug a pit and poured all the sherds in there, covering everything afterwards with soil.\u00c2\u00a0It is a sad task but storing all the fragments would be impossible. Complete artifacts, human\u00c2\u00a0remains, special objects and others were stored and labeled in boxes. Once the room was\u00c2\u00a0cleaned up, we were able to place El Carrizal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s artifacts and start analysis. The team has been\u00c2\u00a0enlarged by 21 undergraduate Universidad Veracruzana students and Ramiro Vivero, all of\u00c2\u00a0them are helping us classifying artifacts and writing reports. Local high-school students are still\u00c2\u00a0helping us every after-noon.<\/p>\n

Now that everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s settled, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go back to work!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The archaeological material\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After receiving our transport permits from the Consejo de Arqueolog\u00c3\u00ada (which is a board of 11 eminent archaeologists who regulate the practice of our discipline in Mexico), we embarked on the difficult task of moving all the ground stone we collected during the survey. We loaded 442 tagged bags and 10 individual fragments in two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}