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Quick recap: Burns Ave is one of the main streets in San
Ignacio, the city I’m currently living in.
I guess they were working on the pipes and doing a ton of digging. Mid-way through the project they found
something spectacular. They found
complete pots. Not just any pots, but
late preclassic maya pots. For those of
you who don’t know this about me, I’m in archaeology. The reason I came down here was to pursue
something that would give me back the passion that I think I lost over the last
4 years. And here it was. Pots. Things that I've only seen in pictures. However, I missed the opportunity to dig with the
archaeologists once they took over the construction site and dubbed it an archaeologtical site. This is entirely my fault by the way, for not wanting to dig under the hot sun and partially because
I didn’t know students could volunteer until it was too late.
After a couple of days of digging, another amazing discovery
was uncovered: bones. Now, they were
certain they had stumbled across a burial site.
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| Cleaning books with fellow classmates and Ryan |
The wonderful thing about the burial is that it's average. Completely average in the sense that it is a Mayan villiger. An everyday person, just like me and
you. Unfortunetly, its a partial.
This could be due to the fact that a bulldozer and plow were tearing up
the streets earlier. We actually don't know. The skull was missing.
Another week or so passed by and more digging continued and
more pots were discovered. In
wonderfully good shape. Now, here’s the exiciting part. Both of my favourite professors here are
amazing archaeologists - it's been fantastic learning under them.
Thanks to Sherri Gibbs, I had the privliage of cleaning and taking care of the
remains that were uncovered!!!! I also had the job of putting together the pottery shards
and broken pieces of the pots with Jaime Awe.
I am absolutely stoked to be working on this project.
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