7/13/06 It was a really busy day in the field today, with many new developments in all three operations. Beginning with WSI, I closed locus 8 in the area of the doorway and began locus 9 to mark the transition to a very dry and tan brown silt. However, upon reaching the bottom of locus 9 we encountered another cluster of rocks that block the doorway. Have decided not to remove these. In WSH, most of the day was spent pursuing the floor in the area of locus 22. Quite unexpectedly, we finally encountered the floor (a packed clay and silt surface) in the center of the trench (with a large sherd of a storage jar sitting upon it). Now it is not clear whether we have two floors here (seems unlikely), whether the floor slopes downward, or whether there is a step in the floor that joins the upper level of the floor (locus 18) with this lower level, which I will eventually create as locus 28. I called Adam to discuss the situation, and he suggested that I square off the area of locus 22 and examine the two floors in the section of this cut. In other matters in WSH, I created a new locus, locus 25, to mark the cooking installation along the southeast wall. We also continued to work in locus 24, the area above the northeast wall of the trench. Compelted the excavation of the pit of locus 23, where we came upon bedrock and a black, decomposing rock. Finally, in operation WSG I focused today on trying to define the doorway in the west corner. There are a jumble of fallen rocks here, resting on silt, which are making it difficult to differentiate the southwest wall from the doorway. I created locus 10 to cover the area above the wall in this west corner, and troweled out this area in the hopes of seeing the relationship between the wall and the doorway. It soon became clear that this situation needed to be examined from the side and not from the top, so I created locus 11 to mark this western corner, and pushed into the probable doorway from the interior of the room, gradually removing rocks that were resting on silt.