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October 31st 2008 |
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Since yesterday Nick Marriner goes around the island, a receiver GPS in his hand. He got down to definitive drawings of the outline of the island. After the shore today he locates the top of the beach, an excursion much less easy to be accomplished. His research did not escape the mocker eye of Sylvain.
On the site, scouring resumed, layer by layer. The number of small bird bones is impressive; we definite realize that these birds had to constitute the major part of the food of the survivors. The first analyses, carried out by Veronique Laroulandie (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux) on our samples of 2006, show not only the consumed parts, but also the way in which they were consumed: roasted, and for the fleshiest parts, cut out or scraped using a knife.
The ground contains the usual nails of frameworks, small copper fragments, bullets. At the end of the morning, in the South-western corner of the survey, we have a good surprise: what we thought of being two or three nails reveals to be an iron tripod surrounded by blocks of coral. We are therefore most probably in the presence of a home. The daily life of our survivors becomes every day more and more verifiable.
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