Seventh Week

Time is just flying by. This week was not quite as busy as last week for me, which was nice because the Keble Ball ate up all of my free time this past weekend. But I'm sure I'll be busier next week; work seems to come in waves here.

 I only had to write one paper (for my Celtic archaeology class) because for my Roman Britain class I attended a Roman pottery practical with some other students on Wednesday. My tutor was leading the practical, so she decided I didn't need to write a paper (yay!). It was really neat trying to create assemblages with the pottery sherds. My tutor determined me a "lumper" and not a "splitter." Basically, I don't like to create tons of little groups. I sort the pottery into a couple of groups and call it a day.

I had my Celtic tutorial today and it went well. We finally started discussing Iron Age. The Iron Age is the period when archaeologists defined the people as "Celtics" in Central Europe. It sounds very exciting. There are lots of raids and fighting because people are trying to steal slaves to sell to the Greeks and Etruscans for fancy goods. Battles are way more fun than agricultural revolutions.

I'm having tea this afternoon at the Ashmolean Museum with some of my friends, then going to see Iron Man (yay!) and finally grabbing some pub food later in the evening. I think tomorrow I will be holed up in a library reading all day and then on Sunday I'm either going to London or to Avesbury (to see a stone circle, a passage grave-basically everything I've studied so far over here).