On Sunday I return to Belinda's trench for one last day of digging. Today we remove the bone we found on Saturday and start cleaning the rest of the trench. We also have one final attempt at digging at the western end of the site. This is where two burials were found last year, so we want to see if anything else can still be found.
An hour in we discover another feature filled with shreds of pottery. This is most likely one of the featurs which are normally found around burials. We dig for the entire day and don't find anythhing else.
Over at Gordon's site where my colleague Michael, and Denyse have been digging there is an incredible find today. A whole floor of buffalo hoof prints is found as well as buffalo bone; all suppoeting the theory of them being domesticated animals.
We return to the hotel, and tonight we get to fend for ourselves for dinner; which is great. A small group of us, with some of the researchers, decide to go into town tonight and have some dinner from the stalls at the night markets. Yummy pad thai and seafood skewers follow. We drop by the supermarket to pick up some drinks, and head back to the hotel to have some late night drinks to cap off a great week. Tomorrow we have e day off and we've organised a tour of the region. We will be visiting a stone quarry, where standstone was cut and transported for use at the Angkor temples here in Thailand and Cambodia. We will then see some rock paintings, khmer temples and as a last stop a silk factory. All within a 2hr drive from here. Should be great fun...
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