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):