| Entry: | Haven't written a diary entry for a while, so I thought I'd play catch up this afternoon.
Lat time I recall writing anything I was in the middle of removing piles of obsidian debitage from Space 332. That was completed a while ago, all the 50 od bags of flotation haven't been processed yet so Marina and I are still waiting to see if the sampling strategy we adopted has anything meaningful to add to our understanding of that space. Further excavations there have been relatively uneventful and the space is still a functional ambiguity. Chris L. took over after a while, and between helping Freya boost tonnes of midden, has been making steady progress with the several rather dull surfaces/dumps lower down in the room sequence. Although, Roddy hijacked his excavation today to take his rightful place (after several years of waiting) as the person to uncover the upstanding wall of the exciting burnt building below).
Most of my time recently has been spent back in Building 75 (Space 328) which is coming along steadily. I have cleared the inside of the oven (F.2637). Carrie and Monique have dealt with a sequence of firespots and surfaces throughout the rest of the room, a sequence that I have now taken over. This has freed the remaining burial on the truncated western edge of the space, and revealed some of the underlying architecture from the structure below, suggesting that we may be close to the construction levels of Building 75, although the process of construction remains ill understood. The removal of the oven however has been delayed by the burial, since it trucates surfaces which seal the oven on the outside.
Laurie is woring hard to complete though and today there was much rejoicing when we found a sharp-pointy-thing, which after some speculation turned out to be (provisionally) the talon of a large raptor. |
