The Excavation Diary

The excavation diaries are a daily log kept by the excavators on site during each season. They record the day to day activity of the team and their observations on their work.
 
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Name: PDGDF 
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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... 
 
Name: PDGDF 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2010 
Entry: We are excavating on the north side of B. 86 wall F. 5024. We documented a thin small layer of silt with ash between the components (19117), and then we started excavating a very compact layer which should be probably interpreted as wall collapse or demol... click here for more... 
 
Name: Chris Atkinson 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2010 
Entry: Hello Chaps and Chapess'!! Welcome to my first diary entry, and about time too. Thought of the day: It's sooooooooooooo Hoooooooooot and not good for gingers. It is my third week and second year of being here and I am enjoying it immensely. At the m... click here for more... 
 

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