Day 9: Digging Up Artifacts - Leighla

I'm excited to say that today the archaeology group uncovered another Taino bowl! We think this bowl could have been used as either a cooking pot, a water bowl, or something else. We aren't sure what it's original use was, but we do know that we found the bowl near some lines in the ground that might indicate the outer boundary of a house. We were  able to help Dr. Conolley and Mr. Gooden dig a trench around the bowl. The trench was rather wide, it was about 50 by 50cm. We lifted out the bowl still embedded in the earth so that way it wouldn't break. Although we don't have time to do it this year, the next phase would be to excavate the boundaries of the house. One piece of evidence that would support the idea that this was a house is that, while we found two intact bowls, there isn't much discarded material like shells and flint flakes. It was a rather tidy area; we had found a lot of discarded material in other test pits ouside of the perimeter.