phillyb doing archaeology and poo in peru: a running photo blog for teh huddle

[Bronn]

haha you got a pic with a bone in your mouth

[Hawk]

Philly don't eat meat but he sure likes the bone

[Kevin Greene]

headed back out to the desert in the morning to map the site in more detail. if i find anything cool or take pictures that aren't redundant i'll post them.

 

edit: until then here's a peruvian flower

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you smoke it?

[PhillyB]

i refuse to smoke anything here after my professor told me about a student a couple years ago that smoked a cactus and went on a two-day trip and got kicked off the field project after walking into his professor's tent mistaking it for a latrine and peeing on him

[Squirrel]

When do you get to the Indiana Jones stuff?

[Ja Rhule]

That bone looks like a tooth.

[PhillyB]

When do you get to the Indiana Jones stuff?

 

stealing artifacts?

 

sadly indiana jones was a terrible archaeologist

[PhillyB]

the sky does some pretty cool poo here

 

 

 

[Ja Rhule]

That's awesome! I love sky shots at sunset.

[Squirrel]

stealing artifacts?

 

sadly indiana jones was a terrible archaeologist

 

 

No running through temples and fighting bad guys.

[Jangler]

 

 

[PhillyB]

this morning we woke up at 6am and trekked to a predetermined location in town and met up with some geologists from chicago and rode up to cerro baul, an enormous mesa in the upper moquegua valley about a half an hour north of town. we were going to use the geologists' 3D digital survey equipment to map the site and render it three-dimensionally, something that's invaluable for archaeological analysis. all of the material we're analyzing in the lab was excavated from various portions of this site about ten years ago, so it was cool to actually see these sites as something more than just a grid on a piece of paper.

 

we headed up, and as we got higher i slowly accumulated all the girls' gear... first a purse, then a jug of water, and then the sensor pylons, and by the time we got to the top i was dehydrated and drenched in sweat and out of breath. it was a bitch of a hike up the side of this damn thing, and the entire way up i had to take a poo. as soon as we reached the summit and found the temple i ditched my poo, meandered down the opposing side of the mountain, and enjoyed the spectacular view of the valley floor below while i blew up some rocks. the last time i did that i was at 15,000 feet on a snowy mountain pass about a thousand miles north, in front of salkantay peak in the andes... it brought back good memories.

 

anyway long story short we mapped the site and explored a little bit. here's some pictures without captions because i'm lazy

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhillyB]

 

 

 

 

[P.I.A]

Beautiful place! Will you be travelling to ecuador during your survey trip?