August 21, 2001

We scraped the bottom of the trench, especially focusing on the bottom of L2010. Afterwards we swept and tried to make some sense of the soil differences. Towards the center of L2010, we found some banded soil. The soil is composed of stripes and two sets of brown color (one lighter than the other). The stripes don't seem to have any sort of pattern to their size/shape; except they always run horizontally in one confined area (east/west).

Some more articulated animal bones were found. It looks as if it is part of a sheep/goat leg (Andy).

There seems to be a definite darker layer running from the West Baulk, in the Southern 3rd of L2010's bottom.

Andy came by at about mid-day and we decided that we would remove L2013, such that the bottom of the trench in the SE, W, and NW quarters are relatively even. It took us the rest of the day to push through this locus. The soil had some small rocks but was mostly composed of a brown silt. Most notably, we found a basalt grinding stone (18cm x 10cm x 4cm) in the eastern baulk of this locus. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone missing; or at the very least I never saw it come back from the field.