June 06 2013 - The Day we Almost Lost the Plot.

The sun shone once again for our last day in the field of week five. Today, some students continued to excavate at the site and some stayed home or in the lab to work on their personal projects. Wendy worked on her project at the site, and did some filming throughout the day,

Bob mentioned that usually, after about five weeks, people get a little loopy on site. I have no idea what he referring to.

We had our first visitor of the day arrive in the morning, Tomas, Bob's son. He had returned for his second time to the site and took part excavating in a unit with Cameron. As Tomas is not an archaeology student, he was in need of a trowel. Bob allowed him to use his very first Marshalltown, which dates back to the days when Bob was an archaeology student during the Palaeocene.

Cameron and Tomas in action.

Caitlin, working hard, unaware that it's all about to pay off.

Amanda found an interesting artifact in her unit in the afternoon, a small flat circular piece of stone, which Wendy believes could possibly be a gaming piece associated with the Japanese game Go. Caitlin also found an interesting object while excavating in her unit. The piece resembles a piece of graphite or charcoal, and Wendy thinks it could have been used for the art of Japanese ink-wash painting and calligraphy, sumi-e.

The piece of possible sume-i found by Caitlin.

The possible "GO" gaming piece found by Amanda.

Towards the end of the day we had some more people drop by. First we had Rastko, Bahram, and Tyler make a visit, and again Bob took them for a tour around the site. Bahram was a 2007 field school student, and a University of British Columbia (UBC) Archaeology graduate. Rastko has completed his archaeology degree also at UBC, and is currently working on finishing his PhD at the University of Toronto. Tyler is an archaeology graduate from the University of Toronto.

Ananda, hoping "X" marks the spot.

Tyler, Bahram, and Rastko all smiles on the site.

The last guests of the day were Mykol Knighton, and Ryan Sagarbarria. Mykol was a 2005 field school student, and both studied archaeology and now work as archaeological consultants for Antiquus Archaeological Consultants Ltd..

Mykol and Ryan sharing some archaeological pointers. Wendy, photobombing.