Any fool can be uncomfortable

Today was our first day on site as a group. Before any excavation could begin there was a lot of work to do in order to make excavation safe and more enjoyable. The temperature out in the sun on site can often be very high, as such students learned how to construct their own mobile shade structures. With these in place we could move onto discussion of how we choose where to excavate and how we go about it in a controlled and scientific manner (following the British Cooper/Garrow method). Two test units were laid out, and tomorrow we begin to excavate!