August 10, 2000

This morning we started by cleaning up the rest of the dirt that was left over from digging in the eastern half of the trench ysterday afternoon. Nothing was found except for a few potsherds.

We also dug out the last remaining bit of L 2002, an small area along the west balk where a rock and a large potsherd had been pedestaled.

Today I am opening lots of loci. The line of rocks in the SW quadrant are now L 2003, and the area to the west of these rocks is L 2004. We are starting by digging L 2004 approximately 10 - 20 cm, to see if we can find a surface associated with the line of rocks. No surface was found, so L 2004 was closed, and the line of stones was removed as L 2003. This action completed, the entire raised area in the SW quadrant was dug as L 2005. While L 2005 was being dug, however, two potentially intersting areas were discovered. A pile of large stones was found in the northern section of the locus, and an area of very hard soil, with a few large stones, was found in the Southern part. Between these two areas, L 2005 was dug to the level of the soil change found on 8/8/2000.

The area was cleaned up and Drew took a photo. After Bradley had decided that the hard soil in the SW corner was just random debris, we dug that area as L 2007 down to the level of the soil change from 8/8. The pile of large stones was dug as L 2006. Nothing exciting was found in either of these loci except for a small chunk of basalt that popped up in L 2006.

After L 2006 was cleaned up, we moved on to dig the pile of stones in the NW corner, discovered yesterday, as L 2008. Another chunk of basalt was found here.

We then worked on cleaning the balks for a while, and after that was finished, the workers dug a little further in the eastern part of the trench.