Workcamp 2014 - Storm is coming

Monday 7th -  Day 1

We woke up at 7.30am to a storm today! So, instead of walking to the cave we stayed at the school where we sleep and listened to a lecture about Cova de Can Sadurní. This lasted for 2 hours….. 3 people fell asleep… - Alan, Benny & Theo. Haha! Only the Archaeologists managed to stay awake.

After breakfast we split into four groups – Romans, Iberians, Greeks and Egyptians. Each group did a different activity as part of lab work:

• Romans and Iberians were sifting through sediment, looking for lithics, bones, pottery or charcoal.
• Greeks were cleaning pottery, bagging the pieces and classifying also.
• Egyptians were trying to find small bone fragments in sediment.

After lunch we took our first visit up towards the cave, carrying the tools. We had a quick introduction about the cave and had a chance to walk about below where they found the Neolithic skeletons. Then it rained….. So we didn’t work and half of us ran back to the school. WE WERE WET! L

During the evening we played some games. In particular the carrot game that Jordi learnt in Palestine. We formed a really tight circle, all touching shoulders and had to pass a carrot around behind our backs. There was one person in the middle who had to guess who had the carrot and we had to eat and finish the carrot before the person in the centre finds it. If they found it we had to switch with the person in the middle. We ate a lot of carrots…. Afterwards we played Werewolf. Jong Yeoun Jung was the last werewolf! Everyone had fun and it was a great game. Then we slept, finally. It was a LONG day.