| Entry: | Today I again helped Jana in space 310, unit 18343, where a new situation appeared. We really seem to have the floor, but the problem is a situation at the eastern wall. There is a plaster like concave structure, that breaks up after several centimeters. In the NE corner it connects to a lump of floor that is subducting. Under this level there seems to be a walking horizon, where finds are lying (flat !). This ''plaster construction'' at the east wall is still very mysterious to me. I could imagine that it was :
1. Once a floor, which was dug away to create a big deposit for broken and half-finished products (pottery is by the way often unfired, also the obsidians we find are often not the most beautiful ones, blades are made by percussion technique, what makes them irregular in shape, also the flint core was only used for some, probably not very useful flakes, Sonja suggested that people noticed after some flakes that this raw material is rubbish and threw it away)
2. A construction which was already meant to look like it looks now when it was built, but I don't know what sense it makes to create such a plaster construction reaching only some centimeters in the room. And what is this lump of plaster connecting to it in the NE corner doing there? It could be the only preserved part of a wall of a bin, but why should it be only preserved in this corner? And why there aren't more finds in the ''bin'' ?
3. I could also imagine that the plaster in the NE corner connecting to the wall is a hint of a surface whose edges are not built rectangular, but floating, so people just brushed quickly a new plaster surface on the floor and a bit up on the wall, so that there are not sharp edges but something like a
concave surface. The questions of 2. remain: why only in this corner preserved or existing? And, even more problematic: This connecting lump in the room has under itself brown soil, so the subducting piece has no direct connection to the wall connecting piece.
4. I'm at the moment not very confident in the theory of a bin construction, because what we found until now, those lumps of plaster that were placed in a rounded shape before hacking them out, seemed to be located on top of brown soil, but nevertheless I would have prefered to let all these lumps in situ and remove them after tracing the floor (because I am very sure about this floor), and have a look for possible structures in the space when everything that is in discussion is still for everybody visible.
We'll see what comes tomorrow. |
