During the last week of the dig our focus has been on wrapping up loose ends and lots of mapping! Yesterday and today paperwork for the remaining open excavation units (EU) was completed, officially closing the units, while the artifacts they yielded were washed and bagged. Closing the units has involved taking soil samples for identification with a Munsell chart, describing the unit, and plenty of mapping. Today Danny, Paul, and Beverly worked to map the western wall of EU 3, following in the footsteps of Kristen and Dan who mapped the unit’s southern wall yesterday. Similarly the walls of EU 8 were mapped today by Tahitia, Erin, Tim, and Charlotte, after they completed digging a window in the north half of the unit.
My lot in life has been no different for the past two days as I’ve created my magnum opus for the field season: a plan view of EUs 1 and 2 with Features A and B. In this post I’ve included an early version of the map (as you can see, nothing escapes getting dirty at the site) along with a digitally colored one that I hope gives readers a better understanding of how the units are arranged. That’s all the news for now, Emily.
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