Archy Digs

I found an Archaeology Group on Library Thing, and the thread is discussing everyone's experience on archy digs, if any.

I am an archaeology graduate student at New Mexico State University. My experiences include a survey in the Saddle Mountains of eastern Washington, volunteered with the Mud Bay Field School near Olympia, and have worked on the excavation of the Wenas Mammoth near Selah (2 summers). The Wenas dig was under desert conditions--lots of fine sandy loess that destroyed two pairs of glasses, my camera, and helped to bury my favorite pair of boots! But I managed to locate and excavate two mammoth rib bone fragments (they are very fragmented due to the tentative age of 16,000 years), a possible prehistoric bison vertabrae, and parts of a kangaroo rat and 2 pocket gophers found at the bottom of a burrow. This dig also became archaeological in 2006 with the discovery of the heat-treated medial portion of a human modified stone flake found in the same excavation unit as mammoth and bison elements. Pretty cool stuff! This dig continues July-August of 2007--they are open to volunteers, and the site is open to visitors, as well.-aggie