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IL17.02
Season
2017
Narrative

In the morning we surveyed a drainage called Tsakhkadzor at the western base of the Aver Berd fortress outside of Lusagyugh village. I took a transect close to the creek going up the eastern side and back down the western side. We were especially looking for any sign of EB material since it is just to the east of where Levon excavation an anomalous EB feature last year, and there should be more evidence of a contemporaneous occupation in this valley somewhere. There are a few new road cuts and canalization in this drainage, so I was paying particular attention to the cuts and exposed soil but the only surface artifact was a worked flake (Ar/Lu.ICL17.03); other visible surface material included some broken obsidian nodules that others noted as well, but we didn't collect since they did not appear worked. I recorded a small rectilinear isolated architecture feature near the east bank of the creek (Ar/Lu.ICL17.04), as well as two surface segments of a buried metal irrigation pipe that are probably a single feature (Ar/Lu.ICL17.01 and .02). After lunch we spent a little more time ground truthing some burials and another church in town mentioned in the monuments list. The iPad's cellular connections aren't working as well this year, so we're debating switching carriers from UComm to Viva Cell.