Tuesday February 17, 2009

We went back to the lab today. We spent the day identifying shells, turtle shell and bones, as well as small mammal bones. We are still working on the artifacts from the Gumbo Limbo Hammock site from the Everglades. Amazingly enough, we did find a freshwater mussel shell in the mix - not sure how it got there, but I'm sure there is a story behind it. We ate our lunch outside at the picnic tables today - got up to the high 60's and it felt great in the sun. Mike Russo (the bone expert) was delighted with the armadillo bones that Dave and Carla found last week out at the dig. He will add them to his collection for use in identifying unknown bones. Carla is very excited today as she found out that she got a spot for graduate work at the University of Georgia in Athens. She was trying to decide between Georgia and Oregon, but Georgia came through with a nice package for her. Everyone seemed to have had a good weekend. We are doing a load of laundry and then will stay in for the night. We have plenty of leftovers between Olive Garden and the blue crab cake I had left over from yesterday. Not too much else for news here - hopefully tomorrow will have something more exciting to tell you.