JULY 5, 2004 SUPPLEMENT

From: Scott Beld
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: Ponton Site - July 5, 2004 Supplement and next Wednesday

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

Next Wednesday (7-14-04) is Volunteer Appreciation Day at CNC with a picnic in the evening at the “tridge.” Instead of doing lab work, we’ll plan on going to the “tridge.”

I heard back from Terry about the bone and tooth from Feature 4. The tooth (see Photo 1 in the photo gallery below) is “a lower canine of a pig (probably a male)” and the bone (see Photo 2 and Photo 3) is “a left distal humerus from a cow with knife cuts on the proximal part of the shaft.” You can see a knife cut in Photo 3 on the right end of the bone – I also noticed some more on other parts of the bone when I washed it Wednesday.

Also I’ve attached a picture of a Clew’s “Bakers Falls, Hudson River” plate that I found on the web (see Photo 4 in the photo gallery) and the picture of our sherd (see Photo 5) so you can compare them.

Tomorrow we’ll excavate at the Ponton site. We’ll try to finish Feature 4 and begin Feature 5!

Hope to see you at the site.

Scott

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Scott G. Beld, Ph.D.
Research Associate II
The University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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