The Diaries
 
November 2nd and 3st 2008
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- New bones -  

Sunday....

The temperature increased by one degree and the rain turned the atmosphere very humid.
Surrounding hygrometry also discouraged some table tennis players, some people worked.
Thomas Romon and Nick Marriner undertook a topographic cut of the island and, Jean-François Rebeyrotte as Laurent Hoarau have, on their side, finished the photography of the objects found during the week and fed the database.
In the evening, the health of one of the weather engineers gives alarming signs. The chief of the station contacts Samu which decides a medical evacuation. The weather remains rainy all the night.


Monday morning, we are announced the arrival of a Transall for 11:30.

At the said hour, the Transall leaves the clouds, flying with a strong drift and settles without hitch on the lane.
A military male nurse takes care of the sick engineer; a technician comes to check the connections of the weather forecast, and then leaves immediately. We have time to entrust him a CD, with all the photographs taken since the beginning of the mission, for Sebastien, because our usual connection is still broken down.

The excavation of a new square was undertaken east of the previous square, we are very curious about what we will be able to find there, because a head of a tibia appears in the layer where several human bones were already found.

The new square is encumbered with blocks of coral and plates of «beach rock" we have a hard time to understand the logic. Lastly, appears, over two meters of length, the top of a wall. The surprise occurs when by clearing the base of this last, we find, in a complete mess, a group of human bones.
Under a flat stone, a skull, a mandible, vertebras, ribs, a head of a tibia which belongs to the same individual as the previous bones.

But, the place of the discovery which seems to be a layer of cuts, and the fact that several vertebras still seem in connection, raise more questions than solutions, all the more besides the human vestiges are worked copper plates, as we already found in the archaeological layer corresponding to the home of the slaves.