CRANIUMMMMM! june 13th

so, finally broke through the floor. it was the most satisfying experience i have ever had. my nice plaster floor cracked perfectly, and the square looked so neat it was worth sacrificing the floor. we decided to do the area a little forward from where i found the cache, from the back wall in. Kim Cox, one of the guys who contributed to my scholarship had shown up that day and was helping me. Under the floor is a cobble fill of chert. they are pretty big irregularly sized cobbles, and they didnt fit together so there were all these suspicious holes everywhere. on the side closest to the front wall, we found a huge limestone block, which jason said was about 75% positively the capstone to a crypt. about 15 minutes after we got the plaster cleared away, Kim found a teeny piece of bone. We called over dawn, who being a forensic anthropologist could identify it as part of a skull. WOO! Kim left, and I had 45 minutes before the day, and week ended. I leveled the square, trying to get most of the cobbles out so that when we came back after the weekend we could just dig right in. i was digging with my hands trying to be careful when all of sudden, POP. i found the top of a skull with my fingers and since it was so brittle it just kind of caved in when i touched it. i quickly called jason over while dawn and i jumped with joy and giggled. we poked around at it for a while, noticing that it had a spot where a blow had hit at one point in its life, and healed. i made a stupid comment about it being cranially deformed and a second later jason was like oh.... wait... no, youre right. oh, i cant even describe how awesome it was. unfortunately all this happened about 5 minutes before we had to leave so we had to cover the skull back up and tarp it, hoping it survives any rain before monday. the good news is though, this probably isn't even the main burial. hello graveyard.