May 12, 2014
-from 9AM-12PM, the team worked to attempt flint knapping. The atlatal (the tool we were building), is the lever, and the part that gets thrown by the atlatal is the spear with the flint point. We had little success though (due to lack of proper tools and good flint). Dr. Knauth showed up though for the day with the proper tools, though we went out to the site instead of working with flint.
36LY0345 Glunk
weather: cloudy, humid, hot
time: 12PM-4PM
digger: Emily sifter: me
-Dr. Knauth observed out work today
SE Quadrant wall cleanup
artifact notes: -fire cracked rocks (indt.)
-chert flakes (prehistoric)
-iron nails and iron misc. objects (historic)
feature notes: -Emily used the trowel as a scrapper
-limestone and brick lumps were located in the wall
NE Wall Cleanup NE Quadrant
dig: me sift: Emily
artifact notes: fire cracked rocks (indt.)
-iron pieces (historic)
feature notes: -I used the trowel as a scrapper
-separate artifact bags by level, even with wall cleanup
12-20in:
artifact notes: -fire cracked rocks (indt)
limestone fragments (historic)
iron nails (historic)
<note> one of the iron nails was bent, which is evidence of a burnt building (probably linked to nearby materials)
feature notes:- I used the trowel as a scrapper
20-33in
artifact notes: -fire cracked rocks (indt)
- iron nails (historic)
feature notes: -I used the trowel as a scrapper
additional notes: -Emily took pictures of the walls of the pit with my makeshift sign showing which wall was which
-Emily then took munsel soil color samples for a few different soil features:
A) top soil : 10YR/3/2
B) black charcoal: 7.5YR/2.5/0
C) dark-orange-yellow sand: 10YR/5/3
D) Pink-yellow-orange stain: 7.5YR/5/4
-I then did drawings of the North and East Walls:
-from 9AM-12PM, the team worked to attempt flint knapping. The atlatal (the tool we were building), is the lever, and the part that gets thrown by the atlatal is the spear with the flint point. We had little success though (due to lack of proper tools and good flint). Dr. Knauth showed up though for the day with the proper tools, though we went out to the site instead of working with flint.
36LY0345 Glunk
weather: cloudy, humid, hot
time: 12PM-4PM
digger: Emily sifter: me
-Dr. Knauth observed out work today
SE Quadrant wall cleanup
artifact notes: -fire cracked rocks (indt.)
-chert flakes (prehistoric)
-iron nails and iron misc. objects (historic)
feature notes: -Emily used the trowel as a scrapper
-limestone and brick lumps were located in the wall
NE Wall Cleanup NE Quadrant
dig: me sift: Emily
artifact notes: fire cracked rocks (indt.)
-iron pieces (historic)
feature notes: -I used the trowel as a scrapper
-separate artifact bags by level, even with wall cleanup
12-20in:
artifact notes: -fire cracked rocks (indt)
limestone fragments (historic)
iron nails (historic)
<note> one of the iron nails was bent, which is evidence of a burnt building (probably linked to nearby materials)
feature notes:- I used the trowel as a scrapper
20-33in
artifact notes: -fire cracked rocks (indt)
- iron nails (historic)
feature notes: -I used the trowel as a scrapper
additional notes: -Emily took pictures of the walls of the pit with my makeshift sign showing which wall was which
-Emily then took munsel soil color samples for a few different soil features:
A) top soil : 10YR/3/2
B) black charcoal: 7.5YR/2.5/0
C) dark-orange-yellow sand: 10YR/5/3
D) Pink-yellow-orange stain: 7.5YR/5/4
-I then did drawings of the North and East Walls:
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| EU 18 East Wall drawing |
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| EU 18 North Wall drawing |
EU 17-18 Wall take down:
-dig: Emily sift: me
-sadly, we only got one bucket of dirt sifted before the rain came, closing out dig for the day
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| Here is a picture of the East Wall of EU 18 |
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| Here is a picture of the South Wall of EU18 |
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| Here is a picture of the North Wall of EU18 |
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| Here is a picture of the West Wall of EU18 (sorry about the professor being in the background of the picture) |
