Sept. 14th
 
[Kellam]
Worked on pottery most of the day. Actually got to know a fair amount more than I had known before. They gave us bags from the Albert Porter site, which were mainly Mancos, if I recollect. Next we moved on to Goodman Point, which was almost entirely Mesa Verde, with some McElmo thrown into the mix. We started out sorting our wares; grey, corrugated, unpainted white, painted white and red, etc. The we found the rims vs. body sherds. After that we divided into finish, at least among the painted white wares: carbon vs. mineral paint. Corrugated gray ware was mostly lumped into a general batch-it's hard to determine what it is unless you have a rim. With the white wares, stuff was further divided into bowl vs. jar…Trevor and I went through 2 ½ bags or so. We had a couple exciting things-mug handle, flared bowl rim with repair holes, canteen handle.

[Kellam-Dec. 5th]
There are a lot of notes on the pottery workshop. However, rather than pass on a bunch of muddled descriptions, inconsistent terminology, and incomplete information, I'll just put a link in to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center website. Their manual for artifact analysis is available for download as a .pdf file. They know a lot more about this stuff than I do. Besides, the purpose of the journal section is to provide a narrative outside the confines of the official report-not a lot of narrative involved in typing out corrugated grayware jar body sherds*.

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*Sample conversation from the field on typing corrugated grayware jar body sherds*

Kellam: Holy f*&#ing S&$t! I don't f*&#ing believe it!
Becky: Oh did you find something really cool!?
Kellam: No, this is just the 75th corrugated grayware jar body we've found in Concentration 1. I ran out of space in the column on the recording sheet.
Becky: Oh.

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