{"id":2133,"date":"2018-11-06T19:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2018-11-06T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T01:43:50","slug":"a-scientific-dig-for-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/a-scientific-dig-for-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"A scientific dig for artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2138 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sifting-at-Goose-Island-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sifting at Goose Island\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> 4th Graders at Southern Bluffs had a unique opportunity to work with educators, parents, and archaeologists during a recent archaeological survey at Goose Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The survey was required because of\u00a0planned recreational development of the site. The processed involved digging several test holes to a depth of 45 inches. The dirt from the test holes was sifted and any artifacts were identified and labeled. Interestingly enough, one test hole showed a few chert shards, charcoal, and a bit of pottery. Nice!!\u00a0Another yielded mostly brown\/green glass and rusted bottle caps, while another did not yield anything.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/test-hole-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"test hole\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/ueoRMO0eptEqmtz_LZJAs21NoWpg6m7NETDE6VKah2EKcYC3hjOy5cKNQulb2o4xJjjt-fbwEGlhpJqBEEDjjD9PH8xKfjOUKdCbLLa_-I-tGMNrl89DN076-I2C1m5zmNjas2qmxYdvtTfFvf6Rm_0G9D71y63EQE7MEsUZkjbaLoPSSbg57uRS3P8-FLD8N_ViXvon6EKoCoTddba5720sytMqtj0P8MdjzCBp5rgF38mLZ8c9DrkHOhiqteyWGxZhp1GOewT4yJ8_gvn9A5kzl1esA8zQC3e2IFp4OU8IBUN563RPikRW7LahKeDLdgbPka5uWXxEEOzej9P0dapv2HPLGJNya-EHY4N6mVMp1x0Gn_IvMflLjQ185UcuwY9ZaDaB9an3Hwshg4dD9OHH_p6YS6D5Td9lhjdglUwbr6Yd0T1Zc_nv6Y-hVb0ar9NUJRBUrJ8NIL-7NGp6ZOdViHvnqjVQp96vG6ARZGjP85vtdJIl9TrBNNLrE5pa4zdHaqCLp9Ya_Hb6V7008kvw7Qb9w42Yu1Tgqp-Fz2BkPnkJEgT6XG3KT-COVRU3g9rJpeR_0ZTeL1eJNM9ZCK3_sg8jtCXdmbO1fszwnLZ8wasWNYvW7KmOo1TW9P1LEsj4waJGdTpwhXDNWuUDkK046g=w730-h547-no\" alt=\"\" \/>Students then began skimming dirt from an approximately 4&#215;4 square, and recording anything found in layers of approximately 4 inches (10 centimeters). Both sifting and skimming were pretty hard work!<\/p>\n<p>Artifacts shown here include Chert shards, a bit of shattered rock, charcoal and a reddish bit of clay pottery. What a great opportunity for the kids to do a supervised treasure<br \/>\nhunting!!\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/artifacts-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"artifacts\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th Graders at Southern Bluffs had a unique opportunity to work with educators, parents, and archaeologists during a recent archaeological survey at Goose Island. The survey was required because of\u00a0planned recreational development of the site. The processed involved digging several &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/a-scientific-dig-for-artifacts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treasure-hunting","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}