alaska

so i'm pretty sure i'm going to alaska this summer for a field school.
the site is called Broken Mammoth and is within an hour of Delta Junction.
i've yet to figure out which direction exactly...

anyway. i've also been looking for websites that aren't too involved and boring.
however, there aren't really many sites about Broken Mammoth anyway, so i'll just give you this one.

it's the last year of the dig, so it seems like they're going to try to go for anything left behind in the older debitage. stuff we find may date back to 10 - 12 thousand years ago. some of the earliest human activities known in the new world.

however, there's always that conundrum involving sites in southern South America that date to roughly the same time.

this should be badass though. i talk to this guy at the pool who lived up in alaska for some 20 or 30-odd years. he griped about the mosquitoes.
that was my main concern, but yesner (the head archaeologist) says they really aren't too much of a problem where we'll be.

awesome!
i guess also during the time in which i'll be there (july 5th - august 5th) there's only a few hours of no sun a day.
rad.
i remember the last time i was in alaska, it was 11:30 at night and the sun was still a-shining. such an eerie feeling...

i'll be tenting for most of the month, with the option to travel around on sundays.
the tenting should be fun. i've never done it for a month (only about 2 or so weeks before), but i've been craving it, so i'll definitely get my fill.

swimming will also be a possibility. with damn near day-long sun, ponds around the site heat up to 70 degrees. that's about the temperature of competitive swimming pools.

i'm stoked.