Each day, the crews headed to the site to excavate. Although the excavation started with shovels, we used trowels and paint brushes as the work became finer.

One meter squares were excavated vertically 10 cm at a time. This technique was used so that the location of any uncovered artifacts could be easily documented.

Screening the excavated materials allowed us to find not only arrowheads, but debitage (flakes of rock created when someone was crafting an arrowhead or spearpoint), bone, charcoal, and other small items.

Each collected item was catalogued and placed inside of a plastic bag for future evaluation and study. Each bag was then labeled to identify the type of item found (i.e. debitage, bone) and the date, location, and depth at which the item was found.

PIT volunteers sketched and photographed the sites so that the archaeologists also will have a visual representation of the sites excavated at Anthro Mountain. The cists found at Michelle's site and the pit found at Byron's site were two findings that volunteers sketched for future reference.