Daily Trench Journal

Area F

Trench 9

May 26, 2005

Removed most of burial L9042. I originally thought it was right side up but no I believe it is head down. So my KT bags that say "Left" are most likely actually "right." The burial itself was basically face down and very poorly preserved – The bone flaked apart at the slightest touch of the brush. I did take quite a few pictures of bone placement though and the teeth should atleast be able to tell something about age. The skull was facing down and to the body’s left. The arms were folded up with its hands up by the skull. Again it was extremely flakey so not much of the skull or other bones survuved in one piece. The upper bone of the right arm (labled left) survived pretty well.

Other than that, I evened out L9043 and brought the SE quadrant of L9044 down to the level of L9043.

Also, upon evening out L9043, I realized that the pit of L9030 continued and still strecthed into L9043. I brought L9030 down to this level and renamed it L9045.