| Entry: | After removing a layer (unit 18356) of about 10cm deep throughout the building 105, we noticed a rectangular darker area in the western edge of the space, next to buttress 5052. JMR excavated and found some sort of irregular shape, which will be left for tomorrow. Some of the 'collapsed' material located in the NW and the NE spaces continued further down (and out). The entire block of material looks very heterogenous and I am not sure how it did end up there. We did remove another 10cm layer in the central space as well (the SE area was left out). There were quite a few interesting artifacts recovered, such as pot stands, ground stones, a square-shape vessel with a single leg (the others were missing), a caprine horn, a bovine horn, etc. But most of all, the ARTIFACT OF THE DAY was a bone hafted polished stone axe, which appeared in the space between buttresses 3366 and 3353, about 10cm SE of the bovine horn. Initially it looked like the section of a large bovine long bone, but after we removed the bone from the ground and placed it on a plastic bag, the 'bone' split into three parts longwise. Then, CMF noticed a piece (3cm long) of grey polished stone stuck deep inside the bone. The rest of the polished stone axe was missing, including the cutting edge, which would have portruded outside the bone shaft.
We did attempt to scrape all the fill from the walls, so that we could have continiously visible structures.
At the same time JMR was trying to remove fill from the SW space of the BLDG 105, with the intention to reveal the walls. This space still remains a mistery. |
