More about Jacob

Here is just a little more about Jacob and what he's been up to, to follow up on my last post. Here is a picture of him working with one of his favorite new buddies, Ellis:

A lot of the time they work in pairs, one will dig, the other will sift and take the notes. That is what is happening above.

Here is a picture of the group. They are working on a site next to a road because the company they are working for wants to expand the road. Jacob doubts that the company will be able to expand the road the way they want based on the amount of artifacts they found there. The company will have to expand the road on the other side which will mean going into a mountain, and will cost the company quite a bit more money.

And here is an example of what it looks like after they dig. When they survey and find a collection of things in a given area, they start by digging what is called a 1x1. They uncovered so much here that the 1x1 grew into a 4x4 (4 meter by 4 meter square).
I know we are all so happy for Jacob! He worked so hard to get where he is now, and is ready to continue working hard in Grad School. He is so amazing!

Jacob the Archaeologist

Here are pictures of a few of the things Jacob has uncovered on the job. For those of you who didn't know, my husband is an archaeologist working for P-3 Archaeology here in Salt Lake. They do most of their work in Elko, Nevada.

How it works: he leaves for ten days at a time, with a 4 days off in-between when he comes home. He loves it!

He finds A LOT of arrowheads, but his first trip out they excavated the 8 to 10 thousand year old 'kill site' of a giant ground sloth, who still had a spear point lodged in its pelvis. Below you can see a picture of that ground sloth's patella. Awesome, right?! Incase you don't know, this is what a giant ground sloth looks like, they are HUGE:



Here is an arrowhead:

This arrowhead is about 800 years old:

This is a drill (late pre-historic 2,000 to 800 years old):

And here is the Giant Ground Sloth patella (8-10,000 years old):