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| | Name: | PDGDF | | Team: | | | Date: | 7/20/2010 | | Entry: | First excavation diary of the UC Merced team.
We started to excavate the 17th of July. We are excavating in the east mound, south area, building 86, space 329.
Maurizio, Fabrizio, Carlos and I arrived one week before the excavation started. Maurizio'... click here for more... | | | | Name: | PDGDF | | Team: | | | Date: | 7/24/2010 | | Entry: | Wednesday 07/21/2010 we finished excavating the fire spot fill (19104), documented the fire spot cut, and recognized a new unit (19106), a midden layer composed of silty clay. The inclusions characterize the layer: small pieces of plaster; about the 10% ... click here for more... | | | | Name: | PDGDF | | Team: | | | Date: | 7/25/2010 | | Entry: | Today we finished excavating the unit (19108) in which we found some beads, an amazing piece of quarzite with organic inclusions, and coprolites. The coprolites were found during the dry sieving, but I have to admit that we were not able to recognize them... click here for more... | | | | Name: | PDGDF | | Team: | | | Date: | 7/28/2010 | | Entry: | We have almost entirely removed the midden sequence in building 86!!! The midden layers are not different from what recorded in the previous midden excavations, and showed by RR in his seminar on middens: all the layers present, in fact, a large quantity... click here for more... | | |
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