| Entry: | Three weeks of excavation in the north shelter have passed in a glance and, since the beginning, I have been coming across some tricky features in building 77!
First was the excavation of the south wall F. 3096, where it was very hard to establish the relations with the north wall of building 108: both walls are connected and we were looking for the extent of the infill between walls. It was difficult to define this inter wall fill because its limits with the layers of mud brick and mortar were confusing. Near the end of the excavation, we realized that the infill was actually covering only the top part of the walls, so it did not continued further down, as it was expected to happen. The excavation of the south wall of B. 77 and the excavation of the north wall of B. 108 made it possible to infer that, regarding temporality, the wall from B. 77 was built before the other one because the domed superstructure of the oven from B. 77 was entirely preserved, so the north wall of B. 108 was built on top.
After this feature, it was decided that I should excavate a bin F. 3613 leaning against the northwest part of the north wall F. 3094. The more the bin infill and its boundaries were dug, the harder it got to understand the relations between floor/make-up units and the features around it (platform F. 6062 and the floor on the corner of north wall)!... So, a multiple layered floor forming a patchy surface remains still unclear in its relation with the features around it.
The third tricky event of the season is a cut on platform F. 6062, which (unfortunately) seems to be a very disturbed burial of at least two individuals: a juvenile and a baby. The disturbance of the burials is increased by the presence of animal burrows within the pit fill, and all I did today was patiently uncover and lift little pieces of loose bones, one by one. As I have never excavated a Neolithic burial before, I was so keen on finding one of those beautifully articulated skeletons! Perhaps underneath these series of loose bones dispersed everywhere in the cut I may still and hopefully find a complete individual. |
