Dr. Locascio started us out in the class room to give us the big picture of field tasks (concepts, field tasks and an overview of the history of the Minorcans) and he explained the importance of the Minorcans in St. Augustine. The land that we are digging in was the location of the minorcan household of Pablo Sabate. It is very exciting to perhaps be able to gather more knowledge of the history of the Minorcans in St. Augustine. We will be drawing, digging and most importantly, washing artifacts and recording our findings. The site is a multi-cultural site that may garner relics from the first Spanish occupation to Minorcan and later Spanish habitation. We also talked about dry or cold climates preserving finds better such as the bog people in he UK.
We walked over to the Sabate site. We talked about the importance of finding and recording finds in context to show the precise location of where an artifact is found. Dr. Locascio showed us the stratigraphy (layers of earth) where different cultures lived. We pegged out three areas to explore more throughly starting tomorrow. A lot of information on methods was disseminated but the most important take away was Dr. Locascio's words of wisdom "It's not what you find, but rather what you find out."
We had a great time and learned a lot. The class is small but diverse. It was a really fun day! I'll send you a couple of pictures. Let's keep it's going.
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