Week 11 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of December 19 “Ho! Ho! Holy Moley!” We’re wrapping up for the Holiday and we have so much to do! Welcome back to another update from the excavations at the Headwaters at the Comal! It’s been a busy (and cold! for the first part at least) week out at the […]
Week 10 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of December 12 Happy Mid-December to you all! Old man rain came and paid us a visit late last week so we had to batten-down-the ol’ hatches on Thursday. If you caught last week’s live update, you would’ve seen the soggy conditions out there as our hosts pulled an audible […]
Week 9 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of December 5 We’ve been busy this past week, trying to make the most of this good weather. The large burned rock midden in Block D has been removed completely – but something interesting was found beneath it… Over in Block D, closest to the well yard and the confluence […]
Week 7/8 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of November 28 We’re back! As the “Gobble, Gobble, Gobble!” from another completed Thanksgiving goes marching off behind us (and our belts return to their normal position!), the Headwaters excavation team got back to work after a week off for the holiday. Although it’s been two weeks since our last […]
Week 6 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of November 14 It sure got cold this week, didn’t it!?! It takes a little bit for the ol’ fingers to warm up in the morning to start digging. I suppose some – myself included – might say it’s better than working in the summer heat. Despite the cold snap, […]
Week 5 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of November 7 Let’s roll up our sleeves and dig back to a quieter time here at the Headwaters thousands of years ago, shall we? This past week, the rains stayed away for the most part and allowed our crews to get back to work in earnest. Even though we […]
Week 4 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of October 31 Happy Halloween, everyone! In honor of this unique holiday, here’s probably the scariest archeology-related scene in the history of movies, the Ark Opening scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. It sure scared a five-year-old me when I saw this in the theaters back in ‘81 (so […]
Week 3 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of October 23 IT’S STILL RAINING………. Unfortunately, the rain has continued to fall in New Braunfels. As of Wednesday, the area is forecasted to receive an additional one to three inches of rainfall so excavations at 41CM204 are on hold for the week until the rain has moved out of […]
Week 2 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of October 16 RAIN RAIN GO AWAY, COME AGAIN SOME OTHER DAY! It rained heavily on Monday, and all of our excavation blocks were flooded. We hope that the features we uncovered last week were not damaged too badly, but we cannot tell until the weather clears up and we […]
Week 1 Update
Archaeology Update for the Week of October 9Our first week of excavations, and already we have uncovered two features! The set-up week involved the excavation of the upper layers of disturbed soil in three blocks (B, C, and D), after which we set the perimeter of the excavation blocks inside the holes that were dug. […]
