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| Peter's basalt knife |
These are all pictures from the first week of the excavation that I never got around to posting. This is the stuff that while pretty does not match up with our story for the site.
Our story is that people came to the site to catch and process cod - hence the cobble spalls, lineweights, and cod bones (along with the charcoal and firecracked rock from the smoke-processing). But of course they also did other things at the site. If they saw a seal while fishing they would have harvested it and butchered it on the site (hence the side blade and knife). They were there for the cod but as opportunists they also caught birds, sculpin and other animals while they were at the site. We know this because we found the bones.
But in general our story holds. Statistically speaking we found very little to contradict it. It is the story that best fits the facts.
Patrick
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| Geena's Sideblade |
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| A ground burin carving tool |
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| Bird Pelvis |
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