July 12, 2017. Today at Aparani Berd BC03 LA ran T05 and I ran T02. Much better!
I had planned on just cleaning up some and getting a sense of how deep the cist walls were going, but that took all day. There is another broken black vessel, a small vessel (bowl?), a sheep/goat scapula, and some ribs (not yet sure if they are fauna or human). Unfortunately the matrix is getting really wet and the bones are very wet. This is going to be a slower excavation than I was hoping for. That said, I think we are coming down on where everything should be and hopefull we will have human remains. I need to take out the rocks that are on top of the first vessel, but thought maybe I should wait for Lilit... then again, she often only want to see the finally chamber. I'm not sure when she will return, which is a concern with exposing too much if it will just sit there.
I added one person in the afternoon to clean around the other stones in the trench to try to see what is going on and if we should expand the trench...
I'm still undecided about what to do after this tomb. Open another one in the area, given the threat from the sand mine even though it will likely be LBA? Or try something else?? I might have to have a bit more of a wander about to look at the other subclusters. But I really don't think there is any perfect choice. Everything has positives and negatives.