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Goodman Point Pueblo Photo Gallery 2005

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Staff and mapping instrument.
 Mapping tools. A very large tent for the field.
Archaeologist Grant Coffey sets up a mapping instrument.
Project director Kristin Kuckelman ready to map.
The staff sets up the field tent.

Raising the field tent. The tent is up and ready. First site tour.
It's beginning to look like a real tent!
The field tent is up and ready for staff and equipment.
The first official Goodman Point Project tour is well received.

Erin Baxter and equipment. Erin Baxter and Grant Coffey move equipment. Crow Canyon staff haul equipment to the site.
Archaeologist Erin Baxter unloads equipment.
Erin and Grant unloading some of the field equipment.
Crow Canyon staff forms a train to move equipment to the site.

A midden unit prior to excavation. A room with two walls and a mealing bin. A good tree-ring sample.
A midden unit before excavation.
This room has a mealing bin.
A tree-ring sample is carefully brushed before removal.

Packing a tree-ring sample. A well-preserved room floor. Taking notes.
The tree-ring sample is wrapped in string and sent to the University of Arizona for dating.
A well-preserved floor in a room in Block 900.
 A High School Field School student records data.

 
Dig journaling. Student writes in her field diary. A burned kiva in Block 300.
Documenting a masonry wall.

A High School Field School student studies her notes.

A burned kiva in Block 300.

Sean Steele helps a student. Two girls find artifacts. Middle school students.
Staff member Sean Steele helps a student.
Middle school girls begin working.
Middle school students working together.

Students work in a midden unit. Grant checks the progress of some students. Two students record their progress.
Grant supervises students digging in a trash deposit. Grant checks the progress of students. Two students stop digging to record their discoveries.

Intern working in a kiva unit. Adult participant works in a structure at the edge of the site. Adult participants dig in a kiva unit.
Intern Abby Weinstein works in a kiva in Block 300. There is a pilaster to her right. Working in a structure built right against the village-enclosing wall. Digging in a kiva in Block 900, which is filled with unusual gray clay.

An adult participant uncovers tree-ring samples. Participants dig in a tower unit. The same tower unit one week later.
Uncovering tree-ring samples in a kiva in Block 500. Working in a tower in Block 1000. The same tower one week later.

The field crew. Deconstructing the tent. The whole crew rolls up the tent.
The 2005 field crew: Erin Baxter, Carrie Swan, Kristin Kuckelman, Radek Polanka, and Grant Coffey.
Taking down the tent at the end of the field season.
Rolling up the tent took the whole crew!


Closing the site for 2005

A room with two walls and a pit feature. A kiva unit with a bin feature in the center. Staff helps to close the season.

Two walls, one containing a doorway, and a large pit feature.

A bin inside a kiva in Block 500.

Lew Matis, staff educator, draws a profile of a midden unit.

Partially excavated hearth. Kiva unit after excavation. Visible kiva bench, deflector, hearth, and pilaster.
Partly excavated hearth in Block 200. Block 300 kiva after excavation. A kiva bench, deflector, hearth, and pilaster are visible here.

Visible ventilator tunnel and kiva bench. Volunteer backfilling a kiva unit. Kristin conducting final excavations in a kiva in Block 200.
Ventilator tunnel and kiva bench in Block 500. Backfilling a kiva in Block 200. Kristin conducting final excavations in a kiva in Block 200.

Visible room floor and two walls. The new field structure! The field crew the last day of the season.
A floor and two walls are visible in a room in Block 1100. Our new field structure! The crew on the last day of the season.