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11/11&12
To get better photos because of the early setting winter sun I will have to start taking photos around 3
PM and the final photos as we leave. Please be patient as we take these photos, they are very important
to document the site and support the TAAA in its future digs. Without them we would have very few diggers
and then we wouldn't have digs and that would be sad.
New members, when I ask for photos I am asking for whole points and identifiable bases. The bases are used
to ID the camp and how many ancients once lived there and how long they may have stayed there. I understand
they are not whole and not "collectable" from a collectors stand point BUT as amateur archeologist we do document
the site through these photos.
Even on corner tangless days, Corner Tang Ed seems to always find a good one. Here he shows off our first conch shell pendant at the site. I did clip it with the backhoe but thank goodness it took only a small nick out of the bottom.
The following photos would not have been available without the use of TAAA member Stuart Taylor's camera.
I would like to thank him for letting me use his camera and sending all the photos to me one at a time so
we could see some of our finds this day.
The last two weeks has been hard on the TAAA cameras. I dropped my new $800 camera that we have been using the past couple months and shattered the view finder, it is now being fixed ($200 drop!) This week I had one of my
old stand bys on the tractor and HIGH dust situation at the dig site totally took out the camera and over 1/2 the photos on this trip.
Some photos are really important to you members and I know that. Many times it is about the people, the experience and not just the artifacts. My apologies to John Higginbotham and son Jon Ray for the loss of your first
arrowhead hunt together photos that we took. I did everything I could to get the dust out of the disks but the photo data was lost.
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