Field Season Begins

Using the soil probe to look for buried deposits

This past Saturday Molly and I kicked off the Alutiiq Museum field season with an archaeological survey. This spring and summer the museum has the busiest field season planned that I can ever remember.  So we are also getting out into the field earlier than we ever have before.  I can remember April starts but never March!  And it is a good thing the ground is not frozen.  Most years I do not think you could start until April at the earliest.

On Saturday most of what we found was WWII related but we also checked on some prehistoric sites.  We have done a lot previous work in the area and I am always amazed that there are so many sites in an area that looks like it should have none.  It is also an area that looked very different 3000 years ago than it does today.  So when looking for sites you sort of have to ignore what it looks like today and imagine the coastline of the past.  Patrick

WWII underground bunker - with a wall for tools

Molly taking notes