Oh Noortje, not another body bag...?!
It is safe to say, I am not a morning person, well, not until I've had a bucket of coffee. However, we've been getting up around 0600 every morning to be onsite by 0700. And every morning, I marvel at the glorious sunrise. Today I planned to try and photograph it for you, I failed to snap the sunrise, but I did succeed in spotting this rainbow. I promise I'll try and get the sunrise on film for you before the end of the month.
This morning I continued to help Noortje catalogue ceramic fragments. This time we were sorting through bags from last year to check that all the rim pieces had been identified and recorded. In order to keep track of which bags had been completed, those with rims were labelled with a star and those of body only fragments were labelled with bodies. We had a quite a collection of bodies...
The really nice thing about ceramic analysis is sitting under the trees, staying mostly clean, and watching the world go by. Incidentally, ever wondered how to feed a team of hungry archaeologists? Al fresco, of course.
The team working on the main site found this cool little guy today. Apparently they sting, hence being carried in a plastic cola bottle. Centipedes like the type of soil that we have here, so they are fairly common. I did promptly google all about them when I got back to the guest house. Centipedes are really cool.
During the lunch break, we returned to the local distillery because it had started up again after the Christmas break. It's incredible to see how much cane juice is pressed out of the stalk, and the heat from the stills was really intense. The smell was a delicious aroma of cane juice and molasses. Check out the slide show for a selection of pics from both trips to the distillery.
The dry weather meant that this afternoon we could finally return to the cliff site to clean up the section. I wanted to cry when I saw the state of the site, but I keep telling myself that Caribbean mud is good for the skin.
