After spending the weekend with Pacific Northwest Archaeology Society members and Dr. Dale Croes at the Hoko River Mouth Retreat, students returned to work today to close down the site for the season.

Students lined the open units with a protective material that will designate where the previous season’s excavation left off, and back filled the units with the sediment they removed during the excavation process.

Before

After

After back filling was complete, students cleaned all the equipment and helped load it into the truck to be transported back to campus for storage!

Thank you everyone for the hard work!!