"You've been watching, Mom," you remind her. (You have a feeling her Indiana Jones period may be coming to an end.) "It was fun, but it was hot, and it was a lot of work, and I got about a million mosquito bites out there," she says. "And I didn't find one artifact all afternoon!!" "Too bad, Mom," you reply. "We found three, hand-made nails, some broken pottery pieces that Kirsti said came from Germany in the 1700's, and some animal bones. Kirsti said the area we were digging in might have been a trash pit outside the house where the family lived, with lots of junk in it that they threw away. Then it all got buried. Just think - I found it 300 years later!" We laughed thinking about how it could be fun to dig up somebody else's 300-year-old trash! "Anyway, I thought it was really cool," you tell her. "Kirsti said we could come back again and volunteer some more. I want to find out what else they find out there!"
"By the way," you ask your mom, "did Kirsti ever identify those things you found in the garden?" "Yeah, she said that the stones we found were not arrowheads, just natural objects that sort of looked like arrowheads because of their triangular shape. But she said that the clay pottery looked Native American. She suggested we do some research at the Historical Society and find out more about the history of our town. Who knows, maybe there was an Indian village there at one time." "Well, Mom....I could always see what I can find out on the Internet. "Uh-oh ! Here we go again!"
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