Aug 15, 2000

Locus 1005 Well, yesterday I had a fever and did not go out to the site. So, today, I'm not feeling that great but I did my best. Day before yesterday, I found a dark-bluish discoloration in the NW corner of the trench. Today, I tried to define what this is. I excavated arond and inside, but it seems to be just a variation in the soil. The soil seems to be burnt, since it had some small frag of charcoal within. It did not follow any definate shape. I found same soil arond it when I dug deeper. I thought it could be an oven, but the soil was not ashy. I found a flat-compacted mud below these discoloration. But, this too had not distinctive shape, and had many animal holes around them. Found no pottery, lithics, or bones around. Before I began excavting this area, I thought about giving a different Locus number, but I decided not to.

Now, we began bashing the rest of Locus 1005. We first excavated about 20 cm and see what was there, but it was taking longer than I thought, so I decided to knock the whole thing down at once. I lost 1 day, and the days that is left is short, so I must hurry up and level this trench.