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LK06.09
Season
2006
Narrative

6/24/06 I established a series of new loci today in WSH. After having troweled out the entire trench, although the matrices remained largely the same, it appeared that their shapes had changed. The lighter corner in the south which was previously locus 9 was still that light color, but it now extended further to the west, so I decided to redefine this space. The area of this tan brown silt became locus 14. The area that was locus 13 remained locus 13 since the dark brown silt continued, but the southeastern area of this locus became a part of locus 15. Much time and effort today was dedicated to troweling around and removing the jumble of rocks in locus 13. A part of a human mandible was found in the process. Locus 15 largely covers the area that was locus 12. The matrix is a medium brown silt, slightly lighter than that of locus 12. Finally, today I separated the northernmost corner of the trench as locus 16, since the matrix in this area is a more packed, orange brown silt than that of locus 15. We still have not reached a floor in this trench, although I think locus 14 is probably getting pretty close. Yet this is not a clay surface, and elsewhere in the trench at the same elevation we are clearly still dealing with wash levels. Found several pieces of an oven in the southern part of locus 15 today, which I bagged separately. As for small finds, today we found a broken groundstone.