Woke up a little earlier today, well actually I woke up at pretty much the same time as always, because we are right on the corner and the vehicles here are surprisingly loud and noisy, between the mega-buses and motorbikes it’s already quite loud by 6:30 or so. However, Jen and I had decided the night before that we were going to wake up early and have us some real Colombian breakfast and not the pastries from across the street. So we got dressed and walked down the ‘strip’ to see who was open and it turns out that a place we had gone for dinner had a few people there, so we decided to check it out. Only small problem was that Jen does not really know much Spanish and I don’t exactly know enough to make coherent sentences but have a pretty good-sized vocabulary at this point. Nevertheless we were able to order to #1 breakfast combos which was scrambled eggs with tomato and green onion, a buttered rice cake type guy and a little fried plantain on the side. All that for only 2000 pesos or about $1 USD!! Also you start off with a little spiced hot chocolate stuff that you eat as a soup, but could certainly be drunk as well as it is not too thick. Good eats! And cheap too : )
Got out to the site and it was already bright and sunny; today started out with nice blue skies and the threat of a rain cloud to the west, which did reach us a little later on after lunch, but was brief. We got a bit of work done again today, getting down through 5 more units, but today I was the digger all day while Evie screened and Jen took notes, made labels, and counted all our finds. Because we are down in the 40-50 level and are right on top of the preceramic stuff we have to be much more careful and start to be a bit more precise in our recordings. We came down on what we think may be a feature, but it’s sort of hard to tell with all the disturbance in the unit. It could be, though, that we are coming down on some type of hearth, there certainly appears to be quite a bit of evidence of fire, burnt fire-cracked rock, and unfired clay. We started getting some carbon today, we are not dating the stuff we found just yet, but some of it is clearly carbonized organic material that could be identified in terms of the berry or seed, etc. If we find carbon down in the preceramic levels, we will certainly be collecting it for carbon dating in the hopes that we can get an older date than 5700 yBp for our site of La Mikela. So these are some exciting times!
We weren’t in the field for as long today, peaced out around 3 and went straight back to the apartment seeing as we had all our lab stuff in order. We are going over to Carlos and Martha’s tonight to celebrate the great Tony Ranere’s birthday. Pat and Martha are making dinner I think, we have a cake, and the girls and I grabbed some gouda and wine when we were shopping to bring along, so it should be good. Right now we’re snacking on some delicious yucca and plantain chips with some homemade guac that Jen just made along with some of our candy we still have left over from Saturday at the movies. A nice little amuse bouche hahaha.
Tony's birthday dinner was quite scrumptious, but the night ended up winding down pretty early as we were all exhausted from a hard day's work. It got to a point where a few people were talking about the project, but in very quick spanish, so as we weren't understanding or didn't care to understand, the three of us girls whipped out our laptops to check in with the rest of the world, which resulted in Pat and Tony scolding us about being rude and antisocial....again, though, I mention that everyone was speaking in spanish so we could have sat there staring blankly orrrrrrr yeah. what's the matter with grownups these days...they just don't get it hahaha.
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