{"id":71,"date":"2009-09-09T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:28:53","slug":"after-the-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"After the Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our modest celebration for the conclusion of the first field season, project activities continue. We are beginning the lab work. We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny how thrilling the idea of venturing through thousands of artifacts waiting for us is. Who knows how many \u00e2\u20ac\u0153treasures\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find among them?<\/p>\n

Local high-school students are helping us wash the materials. This is extremely necessary for analysis, otherwise we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t observe all the details and features that both lithic and ceramics will show. Currently, apart from the clean-up, we are also digitalizing forms and processing the GPS information in order to produce accurate mound distribution maps. This past week we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also met with local authorities and people to tell them about the archaeological research and to thank them for all their support.<\/p>\n

\"High-school<\/a>

High-school students help us wash the ceramics using tooth brushes, buckets, and water. Fortunately, soils here aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t acidic, so we can brush sherds without any danger of damaging them.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Washed<\/a>

This is how sherds look after being washed. We dried them on a plastic sheet in the sun, taking care not to lose any information (on the labels). Once dried, we bag the sherds until we do the analysis.<\/p><\/div>\n

Analysis will also help us determine El Carrizal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time depth. So far, we have preliminary identified materials from the Middle Formative (800 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 400 B.C.) on. Frankly we expect to find earlier artifacts during the lab season.<\/p>\n

Next week, several Universidad Veracruzana students will visit our camp and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to show them all the activities that need to be undertaken once fieldwork is done. Additionally, specialists in polished stones and yokes will help us evaluate artifacts we recovered during our survey and were given as donations.<\/p>\n

Within the next few days, we are also planning to give some workshops to the community, stressing the value of archaeological heritage and protection basics that they need to take into account, since last week we found a partially looted mound, from which we recovered a complete metate or grinding stone. We still have a LOT of work to do\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\"Metate<\/a>

Metate recovered from a looted mound<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our modest celebration for the conclusion of the first field season, project activities continue. We are beginning the lab work. We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny how thrilling the idea of venturing through thousands of artifacts waiting for us is. Who knows how many \u00e2\u20ac\u0153treasures\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find among them? Local high-school students are helping us wash the […]<\/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-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/veracruz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}