Tao Wind

Thanks to the sponsorship of a friendly building company, our camp was very well equipped (by the standards of Russian archaeological expedition)

When the new digging pit workers stumbled upon an ancient necropolis, so this is a career and we were digging. Begin excavation by marking the territory and the division into squares.

Next, shovel in hand and dig. Dig until you get to the "mainland" (ground level to which came the old man). Sometimes the continent appears at a depth of 20 centimeters, sometimes up to a few meters of the cultural layer. And by the way, what was beskulturney lived here man, so he left a thicker layer of culture.

If a male spade stumbles upon something interesting, then it is taken for more accurate and delicate female hand with brushes and knives.

As a result, you can see in what position a person was buried, was sent there with him to the other world his wife and his beloved horse well, and his gold-diamond status ... although the state often fails to see for a couple of thousand years ago, passing by nomads did not shun someone else's grave kovyrnut ...

In the evening agitated forces vainly trying to scare ... not a very sober and cheerful archaeologists.

Tmutarakan

So today is the once great capital city Tmutarakan, also known as Hermonassa, Tamatarha, Matarha ...

Taman mound excavated in part because much of it is a residential area, also destroyed a large part of the settlement of the Taman Gulf waters. The thickness of the cultural layer reaches 12-14 meters. Excavations carried out since the XIX century to the present.

This pithoi - large vessels, which are often used as an analog of the refrigerator for food storage. But Diogenes, on giving, pithoi used as a home.

Just a stone woman.

Phanagoria

In fact about this place is not bad then told:

During excavations, archaeologists are not just taking pictures of everything, and sketched.

Thousands of pottery fragments found are sorted, washed, photographed ...

Do not make up a smaller amount of material of the bone.

Coins, especially in this condition, of course rare, but very useful discovery - they allow you to pinpoint the specific dating of the layer, the direction of economic relations and welfare of residents.

This is a very interesting and nice man, whose main occupation in the expedition - Cleaning and identification of coins. Behind him in the tent is a kind of laboratory reagents, stoves, dryers, scales, microscopes ... All of this, he dragged himself here and a month of painstaking work, he, like most members of the expedition, did not receive a penny. Enthusiasm probably the main thing that moves the Russian archeology.

And this is an archaeologist-diver, a system administrator and then people leaving from communicating only positive emotions.

Archaeological studies of ancient submerged Phanagoria. Clearing of building structures is by gidroezhektorov - unique underwater 'vacuum cleaner', the ground bleeding from the bottom of the bay and cast it into the side of the excavation.

Junior arheozoolog :)

But I got quite a find from another area. I do not understand shit arheozoologii (as well as in archeology :), but for some reason I thought that this boulder - fossilized dinosaur egg ... and the most interesting thing that a professional archaeologist (but specializing in person) when he saw my discovery, not was able to refute this. Now together we are waiting for the verdict arheozoologa or notes, and ridicule in the newspaper :)

Can any of you versed in dinosaur eggs?