Ceecee and I started off the season with a larger excavation unit at Kotið, to retrieve a larger sample of faunal materials. We also found a small bone bead -- perhaps it was part of the same fashionable outfit as the bone pin we found here last summer?
Preparing for photos in the 2x2 at Kotið
Bone bead from the 2x2 at Kotið.
Bone pin found at Kotið in 2016
We've also started sampling for Loss-on-Ignition analysis, which will tell me about the history of mire formation at each site - how wet were the sites when people lived there, and is did the wetlands change in response to the habitation and use of the site? I plan to sample wetlands from several sites over the summer and will process them in the fall (by burning them in an oven - watch this blog in late August for more).
Ceecee next to an LOI profile in the wetland by Kotið.
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