7/11/2013
Workers today were: Sahag, Gor, Gago and Melkon (working for Boris). In the end, Roman, Ruben, and Ardzrun also worked primarily in WSDA1 also, breaking rocks and then digging out the ramp.
It was comfortable in the morning, cloudy with some drizzle, but became very hot by the end of the day.
In locus 29, we still need to determine its extent (we did not accomplish this even by the end of the day).
Locus 31 is the remains of the tumble at the boundary with WSDB. We removed it today.
We had a small find in locus 31, which was an unfinished groundstone. We did not bring it back to the house. It is Ar/Ts.WSDA1.31.L.01. It is a partially finished groundstone, very think, not well-used, and very porous. 25 cm long x 16.5 cm wide x 14.2 cm thick. There is a sketch in my notebook for July 11th.
Small find Ar/Ts.WSDA1.27.B.01 is a bone comb, located 125 cm from the SE wall, 140 cm from the baulk, at -172.0 cm below datum 2. The location is marked in the map drawing for July 11th.
Locus 34 is the cleaning of the color (below locus 10 at the moment, but will extend across the trench, as we finish loci 28 and 30).
Tomorrow we will clean locus 28, scrape locus 30, excavate locus 25, and finish excavating locus 26. We will also define the boundaries of locus 29.
The floor is almost completely exposed, with the exception of the SW side of locus 30. The boundaries and description of locus 29 are still unclear—it is certainly a much deeper deposit of the black, soft soil, but it does not yet appear to have the defined edges of a pit (which would have been my first explanation for the locus. On the NE side of locus 29 (the central-SW side of locus 28), there was a cluster of medium-sized stones, which also went rather deep, may have had the mottled, black and brown soil we found over the floor above them, and certainly do not have floor immediately under them. When we removed them, there was black soil underneath.
Along the NE extent of locus 28, almost at the same level of the floor, there was a grey-black gravel.