Flight in the morning!

Flight is at 9AM tomorrow morning. I'm stoked! The parentals and I will arrive at 11:50am CA time and 12:50pm NM (New Mexico) time. The plan is to get a rental car and drive straight to Santa Fe, and we'll be spending the weekend there. I'll be probably reading the thick stack of articles about Obsidian and the Caldera in NM, and looking at the book that Shackley wrote about Obsidian in the Southwest. Next time I write I'll be there, so adios!

Below is the class description as written on the syllabus.

"This summers field school is designed to familiarize students with an archaeological view of quarry (stone procurement) sites and stone tool technology in the North American Southwest, by a field examination of obsidian, chert, and other volcanic sources used for the last 13,000 years. Through in-the-field classroom and field sessions, students will learn field collection strategies, sampling, mapping the secondary distribution of sources, geological and topographical map reading, and an introduction to the identification of rocks in the field. The course will involve a week or more dry camping in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico, and other trips from the base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A number of strenuous day-long hikes into stone sources will require good fitness and ability to cope with very warm weather and the potentially stormy Southwestern monsoon. Housing will be in the dormitories on the campus of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and part of the time we will be camping at Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico. Transportation in the field provided. Field visits to Paleoindian and Pueblo period sites, and lectures by earth scientists and archaeologists from UNM and Los Alamos National Lab included. Weekends free to explore the great American Southwest on your own."