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Code
AFG.08.33
Season
2008
Narrative

With the robot again at Aragatsiberd today we were able to focus on mapping some of the site's surface features at the same time as excavating in operations AB3 and 4. Lilit was also on site in order to finish the AB3 plan and section. Our mapping efforts were able to shoot in 6 of the 8 new Aragatsiberd rebar benchmarks as well as the construction road and several lines of surface architecture.In AB3 we reached the bottom of the north trench bedrock pit after less than an hour of excavation in new pit locus 21. It is now clear that the pit is singificantly more cylindrical at its base than at the higher portions where the bedrock slopes downward and is sometimes jaggedly cut. There may be a construction of some sort in the western portion of the pit, and the large locus 17 stones are clearly sealing stones, closing the pit at some point in time while the associated bedrock and clay floor was still in use. Further cleaning of the pit and the trench portions directly to its north will serve to clarify both its own design as well as its relationship to the north trench stone architecture. We had diagnostic LB ceramics all the way down.In AB4 we continued to clean both loci 6 and 7, with one fantastic projectile point find, a straight edged, bifacial point with curved bifurcated base, most likely LB, but not the most common form. EB ceramics from locus 6 continue to be high in frequency and quality, diagnosticity.Lilit finished the plan and section today, leaving early with Ruben after he stopped by for a site inspection