This semester, I began volunteering in the archaeology lab on campus to help wash and sort items from a recent dig. This allowed me to begin gaining lab experience in my field. The first picture is a dog’s head that appears to have been sacrificed when the houses being excavated were abandoned. The first two vertebra, the axis and the atlas, are still attached meaning that the head was probably cut off before skeletonization. The second photo is of large pottery sherds with markings carved into them and one has a handle still attached. I discovered these markings while washing artifacts from the dig. The experiences I have had in the lab have helped me grow so much and even though the lab part is not what most people think about when they think of archaeology, I am excited to begin making my own discoveries whether it is in the field or in the lab.