Friday, October 7, 2011

Back in MT

Hello again everyone. Well I'm back in MT but might have to return to WY for another 10 day session when or IF, BLM gives us the go-ahead to do some testing on another site.

We found three house pits on the site we were on, many fire pits in those house pits and thousands of pieces of debitage and bone fragments. Most of the bones were small, but a few were large leg bones of Probably antelope or perhaps deer. We will know for sure once the lab has time to look at them. There were also several jaw fragments, again they will be sent to the lab to confirm the animal(s) they came from. We did not find any whole points, but did find several parts of points, including one Archiac point base. A stone pendant was also uncovered, basicly a "pretty" rock that has a hole drilled in it for hanging.

While WY is not a place I'd want to live full time, it was pretty nice while I was there.

The view out my window in the morning

A few rain showers did pass by, but only once while we were working and it didn't last all that long.

No pot of gold

We were camped on the edge of the Great Divide Basin and there were Lots of "two track" roads in the area for me to ride my trials bike.

Great Divide Basin east

On the north side of the highway there were hills of solid rock that I'd have loved to ride on, but there are no two tracks over them so I was not able to do that. If I return next year I'm going to find a private land owner that will give me permission to ride on the rock on their property... I hope. :-)

The Big Rock