Today was another great day. We spend all day working in the prep lab, gradually working up in tool and task complexity. Peggy got a new bone (hers was very fragile) and Anne worked on completing one bone. Each bone has a catalog number, and we keep prep notes (tools used, hours worked etc) on each bone.
Some people got to work on opening up new casts, looking for what is inside. That was exciting. The tools vary from dental pick, to small air tools (think dentist's drills) to sandblasting.
By the end of the day, we were pretty dusty. Almost all of the bones we've been working on are from the tail of one of three types of sauropods. They think that 6 or 7 different ones have their bones all in this one spot.
Tonight we had pizza and salad at the dinosaur center and one of the staff talked to us about human fossils. His masters and doctorate (in progress) are in paleoanthropology. He is working at the dinosaur center and hoping to finish his dissertation. We heard about Lucy, and the other probable human predecessors. Lots of questions yet to be answered.
Peggy and I rode our bikes to and from the center today, and over to lunch. We skipped lunch at the senior center and went to Subway, and sat in the sun. It warms up to very comfortable daytime temps.
Tomorrow we are doing a tour of the hot springs and the Wind River canyon. We get a little prep time in the morning to continue on our bones.
Anne
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