Finally, some relief from the dry conditions with a nice day of rain -- not enough to break the drought perhaps, but at least something! The showers started by about 7:00 am and set in for an intermittent but solid rain for much of the morning and early afternoon.
When I arrived this morning, I caught a couple of turkeys out enjoying the showers...
In the early morning, we had a lecture at our field house on the Mississippian site of Averbuch and then adjourned for a tour of Wynnewood State Historic Site across the highway.
Our friend Nettie provided the students with a guided tour of the house...
And our friend Lee gave a demonstration of his skills on the foxhorn (used backed in the 1800s to let neighborhood folks know that the mail had arrived at the Post Office)...
After lunch, we worked in our field laboratory washing artifacts.
Here, Andrea washes a bag of artifacts from the digs...
While Jessica, Noriko, Lynne, Gwen, and Ali wash other artifacts...
By 4:00 pm, we had washed up a few thousand artifacts -- in the tray below, fragments of flint, pottery, animal bone, and a few plain old rocks are cleaned and starting to dry. We'll then inventory and analyze these materials over the next few weeks.
On the way home, I stopped by to check on the excavations -- our plastic is full of water and ready for some bucket brigades in the morning.
We'll be back on the site tomorrow to continue our excavations.