Today we started by continuing down in Locus 8. As we came down on the eastern side, we discovered the tops of a couple of small vessels. The matrix on the southern side of locus is increasingly clayey and shifting to an orange color, with lots of small rocks, making it very difficult to dig. This eventually turned into a large vessel (Locus 14) with 3 small vessels (Loci 15, 16, 17) on arms (transitional MB-LB). The articulated vertebrae were resting on top of these pots, at a depth of 2211.397 masl. Next to these, we found a cauldron shaped vessel (Locus 13, possibly painted (also transitional MB-LB). We also discovered that this layer of pots continues under the upper layer (Loci 10, 11, 12). The articulated ribs to the west of Locus 10 are very friable and many of them broke while I was exposing them (they are bagged separately in the Locus 8 bone bag). The ribs run N-S and the rib cage is oriented vertically (see photos), at a depth of 2211.393 masl. To the west of these vessels, we found a cache of 11 translucent obsidian projectile points (Ar/Ge.K2.8.L.01-11) at a depth of 2211.314 masl. We found another translucent obsidian arrowhead in the NW corner of the locus, at 2211.394 masl. At the end of the day, we photographed Locus 8 after exposing the two layers of vessels. I removed the exposed bones and we will remove the upper layer of whole vessels in the morning.
In Locus 9, we began the day by going down another 10 cm, which was not terribly illuminating. After that, the workers broke the large white capstone, just south of Locus 9. Coming down, the shovels hit a sheep/goat radius and ulna at 2211.173 masl, in the SW corner of the locus. As we came down, we hit an orange clay matrix in the southern half of the area, so we decided to close Locus 9 and open Locus 18. Coming down in Locus 18, we discovered that the southern wall has a 4th course of stones. While digging, we found another sheep/goat radius and ulna, which is the opposite side of the one found in Locus 9. It is not impossible (judging from size) that these are from the same animal, which would be an argument from combining Locus 9 and Locus 18.