Friday and Saturday part of the group journeyed to Yosemite Nation Park. We spent Friday night at Anna's house(Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Antoniou- we loved the fruit!) and then went to the park Saturday. Our first stop was at the Mariposa grove, The Giant Sequoia Trees
After seeing the trees, we headed down to the Yosemite Valley, ate lunch, went on a small hike, and played in a refreshing water fall. Then we went up to Glacier Point and enjoyed the spectacular views Yosemite had to offer.
Sunday was our last day on site. We finished up the units and back filled them. We worked on some auguring, which Anna really enjoyed. Some topography was also done. Finally, we packed up all of our gear and left site.
The rest of the week has been spent doing post-ex work. We have had several intersting lectures on different aspects of archaeology. We worked on a lot lithics analysis. We learned how to do flotation. We visited the Oil Museum and Lake View Gusher Num 1!
Thursday, the group returned once more, to Wind Wolves to say goodbye to everyone there and and visit a few sites . We saw several sites that had previously been excavated and also a site that will be excavated next year. We also returned to one of our sites where we picked up the last of our gear and discussed what we would like to have accomplished next year. Then we headed out of the preserve stopping by a cool historic house, Dorothy's house.
This week has also included a lot of fun recreational activities! Including: bowling, multiple trips to Jolly Cone (our favourite local ice cream shop!), a Bakersfield Blaze game, and of course, lots of board games!
We made team t-shirts!!! Here's a picture of Dave modeling the shirt!!
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