Things that make you go hmmm

Some amazing things are coming to surface here in al Baleed.  Whenever you tell someone you're an archaeologist the first thing they ask is "What is the coolest thing you've ever found?"  What they don't know is that is a loaded question.  What WE think is the coolest and what THEY think is the coolest may not even be close to each other.  In an archaeologist's lifetime the likelihood of finding something gold, or even monetarily valuable, is slim to nil.  Most of those things were never lost or were stolen long ago, or have alraedy been put in a museum somewhere.

BUT we do find things that are cool.  Cool to the site, cool to science, cool because they are weird, cool because they don't belong, cool because there are so many of them... etc, etc, etc.

We also find things that we aren't 100% sure what they are.  Some of those things are too dirty, too stained, to broken to be able to tell.  Some things are from objects that we don't get very often or that we weren't expecting to find so when you see them you go" hmmm what is that again?"  or "hmmm why is that here?"  or even "hmmm that's really pretty."

Base of a green glass jar.  We have found several of these.

Here are some cool things we've found and some things that make you go hmmm.

Somebody's little teeth.

The shell in the middle is a terebralia.  They are found in mangrove 's -- I don't know if you've been to Oman lately but here in Salalah there aren't any mangroves anymore. .  We have found many of these.

This little guy is cuttlefish--not sure about the dots...

Some coins, found nearish the top but still cool.

Glass bracelet, one of many.  Either one girl lost all of them or several girls lost one each. ;-)

Last but not least, this appears to be eggshell with the number  9 on it.  (Arabic 9 & American 9 are the same FYI.) The other object appears to be a bead of some kind.... hmmm