Random Peru

Some random pics from San Jose de Moro

Every morning the cows walk by the site San Jose de Moro Area 35 pit.  It is a bit unnerving to look up at see a cow above your head.

And an occasional pig. No llamas though.

The main building (above) is where the bioarchaeology field school works with the skeletons.  It also is the home for Julio, who takes care of the building and the site.  It is also home to his workshop.  He has learned to make replicas of the Moche fineline pots using the methods they would have used. Here he is taking several out of the kiln. 

He has several of the young men who work with him.

Here is several of us eating lunch in one of the homes near the San Jose site.  The Field School contracts with 6 or 7 women, some wives of the workers, to feed us in there homes near the San Jose de Moro site.  We eat well!

Here I am taking pics in the lab of ceramic pieces.  I worked in the lab for a week.  It was very interesting and I liked it a lot.  Seeing all the fabulous ceramics from all the sites made the job not boring.  You'll notice there is laundry drying behind me and ceramic pieces drying on the ground behind me also.  I am on the roof.  I think I'm over any fear of heights.

And Natasha taking pictures creatively because she is shorter.

Writing on the each ceramic before they are photographed.  I did this also.

A pic of our multipurpose kitchen room, lab, laundry, etc.  We eat our suppers in the main hotel open air dining area where we have internet (previous post) but breakfast is served here and after the dishes are done and tables cleared off lab work begins. 

The kitchen is at the end behind the mat. 

 

And here are some of the papayas they make our morning juice from. Azucar is sugar and it is larger grain and browner than our sugar. 

The multi use sink.  It washes dishes, ceramics, and laundry and must be operated by humans.