The following time lapse videos showing various aspects of the excavation this season.  They were made with a Kodak digital camera that was programmed to record a photo every five minutes (how we do it).  Some videos are shorter than others for various technical/logistical reasons.  We also have time lapse videos from 2001 and 2002.
	One of this year's highlights is watching a cast being made of a portion of the site (see June 23 and the days that follow).
	Warning: These files are large.  Most are over 3 mb.  You will want a fast connection (DSL, Cable, or T1) and you will need an AVI viewer.
June 14	Site setup.  Taking down the black plastic that protects the site during the winter and putting up the tarp that keeps the rain out while we excavate.
June 16	In the morning we give an introductory tour of the site to the excavators.  Then, as the day progresses, the total station is installed on the right and excavation begins on the west section.
June 18	Excavation on the main two areas for 2003.  To the left is a portion of deposits resting over the burned layer (Bordes' XYZ, our 8).  To the right is what remains of our excavation of the west section from the top to bedrock.
June 19	This one focuses on the burned layers (the dark levels at the bottom).  Not much happens in the morning while we discuss our plans to make a cast of the section first.  This cast will document the hearths in these levels.  In the afternoon, Dennis Sandgathe can be seen cleaning the section.
June 20	More on the burned layers.  Paul Goldberg can be seen making observations of the freshly cleaned section.
June 22	This very short time lapse documents work on the west section.
June 23	Back to the burned layers.  Not much happens in the morning, but in the afternoon you can watch the process of putting the first layer of latex on to the section.
June 24	More latex.  By the end of the day the section is completely covered.
June 25	What comes next is a coating of fiberglass.  The latex molds to the details of the section but is not rigid.  The fiberglass then supports the latex.  In the afternoon you will see work done on the corner to build a kind of fiberglass joint that will help them put the cast back together in the museum.
June 26	We changed the time lapse to one minute, but even so it goes fast.  When the time lapse starts half of the cast is already off.  Next, we watch them remove the fiberglass from the right side (this is very fast) and then slowly peel the latex from the section.  The latex pulls with it a little bit of sediment.  The latex mold is then lifted onto the fiberglass to be transported back to their workshop where they will make a positive from this negative impression of the section. In the afternoon the camera switches to the west section where we are nearly down to the bedrock.
June 27	EDM Cam.  In this time lapse we mounted the camera on top of the total station (EDM) we use for mapping artifact locations.  This video gives you the total station operator's view of the day.  Note that in nearly every shot there is someone holding a prism (the bright circular light that looks like a flash-light aimed at the camera).  Since the images are in essence randomly timed, this gives you an idea how busy the total station is during the day.  At the end of the day we see a visit by Princeton University students.
June 29	Now that the cast is finished, excavation starts again on removing the sediments over the burned layers.
June 30	Back to the west section.  The right half is no down to bedrock.
July 1	More on the west section.
July 2	The west section continued.
July 3	Back to the deposits over the burned layers.
July 4	More.
July 5	In this video you can see that we are almost on the burned layers.  You can also see that we are mostly working through large rocks that represent a partial collapse of the rock-shelter during Mousterian times.  The board across the bottom is to protect the burned layers.
July 7	Extreme close-up.  In this one the camera is looking down the length of the excavation.  It gives you a great close-up view of the process.
July 8	Here we pull back and give you a feeling for the activity that goes on at the site.  To the left Dibble and McPherron are doing stone tool analysis.  To the right the burned layers are being worked.
July 9	This one starts with the work on the burned layers and then turns a bit later in the day to include the total station operators.  One person is doing the shooting and one person is working the hand-held computer to save the recorded data.
July 10	Here we have the burned area and the west section at the same elevation and are working them together.
July 11	This is the first video in a series where we document a portion of the excavation of the burned layers from a close-up, bird's eye view.
July 12	Continued.  Keep an eye on the cookie.
July 14	Continued.
July 15	Continued.  By the end of the day we have reached bedrock.
July 17	Here we feature jack-hammer work on the south section in an effort to make the wall vertical.  The work is difficult because of the large blocks of roof fall that have to be trimmed.
July 18	What happened on this day is a secret.  Just kidding.  We had to put a tarp up for safety reasons.  Chips of stone from the jack-hammer could hurt someone working in front.
July 20	Here we are finishing work on the west section.
July 21	More work on the west section and we are also excavating a bit more of the burned layers.
July 22	Continued.
July 24	Continued.  Part of what you see in this one is a film crew working at the site as well.