08.10.2008Today was yet another frantic day. I randomly picked Burial 12 from the 3rd subgroup and laid it out. 3.5m x 4m... it should be pretty small and maybe we can excvate it in 4 days! Maybe. We managed to get the topsoil--locus 1 off today.I also had to finishing shooting in the corners and datum so that ATS can add them to his final map for RB before he leaves on Thursday. I started with the good excvators that I have left working on the skeleton in B10, but they thought it was too difficult. When I finished with the total station I took over excavating. It was indeed confusing. If the individual is in anatomic position then it is very tightly flexed on the right side and man of the bones loosened and moved away from the body during postepositional processes. Both femurs were certainly in articulateion with the os coxae (pelvis) But the sacrum, manubrium and scapulae had both moved away from their correct anatomical positions. Additionally, the first bones exposed-the left humerus and tibia were the highest parts and the rest of the body sloped down--thus it seems possible that the bones could have moved downward and outward as the body decayed. Or they were tightly bundled and also moved over time. Additionally there was no skull. I found the mandible last and upside down--one o the lowest points and north of most of the other bones. I think however that most of the other bones--including small phalanges and even the hyoid were present. Therefore it does not seem like the other other examples of excarnation--all of the bones were complete as well. Good preservation in fact.At the lend of the day I photoed the loci and took out the bones and 2 vessels.