Last week I took Stuey on a boat-based archaeological survey of Broad Point. Molly's husband Ryan gave us our ride in their family skiff. We spent the day landing at likely beaches and looking for evidence of old villages and processing sites. We also checked on the condition of a couple of known sites. At the known sites we made sketch maps, and assessed whether they were eroding or not, or threatened by anything.
We are finding that most sites are actually in much better shape than they were 20 years ago - the land has rebounded out of the sea since the 1964 earthquake and, as a consequence, sites are not eroding as badly anymore. However, we did discover that one site that was severely eroding in 1997 seems to have eroded away completely in the last 20 years.
For the most part Stuey did enjoy his time on the job with dad - but it was a long day! By the time we were done everybody was pretty tired. Another day in the sun doing archaeology. Patrick
Monday
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