Working on St. Vincent

I have spent most of my time on St. Vincent in the National Trust Museum in Kingstown. I have using the pXRF to analyse a number of the ceramic objects in the museum. These have been slightly more complicated to work with because they are more complete than the fragments found at La Poterie, Grenada. Basically, the museum objects are really awkward shapes to analyse, so it is taking me longer to work with each sample. Also, with people coming and going, the vibrations of the floorboards keep jogging the sample and/or the instrument, which means I have to redo several measurements. But despite this, the work is progressing, and it will be interesting to compare the data between the objects from the different sites and time periods.

Yesterday morning, we visited the reconstructed Carib village at the site of Argyle. Leiden University previously excavated the site and based on their research, some experimental houses were constructed. Later we also visited the library where a scale model of the suggested layout of the village is housed, again this is based on the research from Leiden University.

On returning to our apartment in the evening we were met with this fantastic view. I could get used to working in the Caribbean.