July 17, 2001

My journals have always been pretty long, but today is not going to be a verbose entry because work that took a lot of time didn't really lead to anything too interesting to write about. We dug down in L1018 about five centimeters on the whole area. It appears we may hit something cool soon, but nothing yet. We leveled the Loci around L1021, the burial, looking for more cool pots or rocks. We found nothing as we took down L1024. L1024 was given a separate locus because of its location on the other side of the burial. The soil on it this day was not as soft as the burial locus, but it was softer than the other soil in the trench. This area did give a large pot last year, so we think there may be some good stuff in this locus. Other than assorted pottery sherds and lithics the day was not too exciting. I think I am going to make L1020 and L1022 into two Loci, L1025 and L1026, one within the hypothesized oven and one out of the oven. The burial should be taken out by bone guys this afternoon. Then we can finally get down beneath it and see what is up (or down, whatever the case may be). That's all for today. Bradley came and spidered the burial. Dawnell found some cool bull horn in the oven in F4. Go Dawnell!!!

On this day we also began a new locus, L1028. We had begun the locus L1022, which this locus is underneath, for the purpose of finding the burial in the southeast of the trench. Since it now appears that this burial is underneath the baulk, we changed back to a new locus. As near as I can tell the new L1028 is just fill for now, with soft dirt.