Area P (my area) is still digging down to reach the level our supervisors think is the start of a “live” level.  At this level, theoretically is the place where we should get into more datable strata to start making assertions about our particular square.  At times I feel like a human backhoe, just moving dirt and filling sandbags ad nauseum.  Regardless I too look forward to reaching the level so that we can begin piecing together what is happening in our area.  In the meantime, I am getting a crash course in field archaeology learning the “how to’s” of: documenting samples of charcoal, special finds and such, as well as measuring where they are in the square, reading pottery (looking at it and determining who made it) and am loving it.  It is very hard and dirty work but I am learning so much and feel like a little kid at times digging in the ground looking for cool things.  We are still unsure of the structure that we found; in fact it may just be a pile of rock…but hopefully it is something significant.

Today I found a sling stone and they are big.  I can see how David could easily have knocked Goliath silly with one of them.  They are about 2/3 the size of a baseball and almost perfectly round.  Pretty cool!  That should do for know.  Tomorrow I dig some more….