Another day of rain

Today I kept on working the totalstation, and the rain kept pouring down it´s missery over us. Everything gets so much more complicated when it rains. The ground is slippery, the boots get heavy from all the mudd, writing on papper gets a bit tricky, and the mood gets a bit low. Luckily this is counterbalanced by all the nice finds that the bog provides us with. Today we found two pieces of chewed resin. You could clearly see the thoothmarks in the resin. I dont think people chewed the resin as a chewing gum. It´s proparbly to make it softer and easier to work with. But it´s still a bit mindblowing to hold a piece of resin in the hand, with tooth marks made by somebody about 8000 years ago.

The entire excavation area is covered with nails stuck in the ground, marking finds for the measuring crew to pick up. We have so many finds that we eaven ran out of nails at one point, so people used sharpened twigs instead. The total station is at constant work occupying at least three persons at a time. One person on the reflector pole, one person picking up the finds, and one person sorting out the different finds categories and making notes. It´s almost like working on a assembley line in a factory, just a lot more interesting.

Today we found this sharpened stake.

Archaeologists in action.

It´s impossible to say no to those brown eyes, I just have to give him a piece of my cookie.

Black plastic bags and duct tape, now the car is ready for some muddy archaeologists.