5/2/2014

Dru Keyser                                                                                                                             May 2, 2014

36LY0345 Glunk

    Today was cloudy like yesterday, but there were a few quick passing showers throughout the day.  Also, it rained last night, so the ground was semi-wet, which made screening for artifacts much more difficult.  I continued working on excavation unit sixteen, where I have now dug past the historic level (zero to approximately ten inches), and began working on level two (ten inches to eighteen inches).  This level was comprised mostly of prehistoric artifacts, including stone tools, pot sherds, and chert debutage.  The soil at this level started to become very sandy, which made screening for artifacts easier than dirt, but because the ground was went from rain, the sand tended to become very compacted.  I began with the Southeast quad were I found a beautiful, chord marked pot sherd, along with a stone tool, of which I have yet to identify the function.  After bringing the Southeast quad to a depth of eighteen inches, I began working on the Northeast quad, in which there were no significant finds.  The next two quads (Southwest and Northwest respectively) also did not contain any significant artifacts.  After bringing the entirety of my excavation unit to level three, I began working on wall clean-up.
    I spent the remainder of the day working on the Southeast and Northeast quad walls.  I used my trowel to slowly and carefully scrape the walls, making sure that they were strait and that the stratigraphy could be clearly seen.  After completing the wall clean-up in those two quads, we decided that it was time to call and end for the day, so we cleaned up our materials, re-covered the excavation units, and went home for the day.