| Entry: | I love building fills; always interesting. I was working on recording the unit Lisa Y. and others dug in 2009 (17383). It is the fill of B79. Found something amazing in there: a piece of cattle scapula with bits of obsidian embedded in it!!!!!! So far at least five bits of obsidian. Adrienne pointed out that the wound had healed around some of the obsidian bits. The bone around the pieces seems to have formed a slight pathology. So it looks like it wasn’t a deadly injury and the animal lived with that for a while. Poor thing must have bled a lot though and probably became limp (is this a word?). Could this be an intentional wound to slow the animal down, bring it close to the site, keep it around, tend the wound? Is that possible? Or was it just an initially failed hunting attempt?
Another B79 fill unit revealed few bits of bones that have pigment on them. They were either stained by accident or colored intentionally. I showed them to Ayna (spell?) and she showed me the pigment and the clay that match the colors on the bones. Beautiful colors! Unfortunately the bones are tiny pieces of scrap; a small fragment from a sheepsize animal and a fragment of a tooth; don’t say much. But it is rare enough to see stained/colored bones. |
