[Kellam]
Woke up feeling a bit better, but now much worse. Everyone is sick
to a certain degree. Couldn't taste breakfast. We loaded up and left
for the site, listening to Queen. When we got there, the other
group headed out to finish flagging their line, while Ruth and mine
started sweeping transects-walking lines due E/W, with 5m between
people. The outside person dropped pin flags while the inside person
collected them. Didn't find much but "background scatter"
until the other group joined us. Soon located fire-cracked rock
feature which became site LT-4 [5MT 17273]. Rest of mesa top [actually
rest of mesa top east of barbed wire fence] proved nothing too exciting.
Two projectile points: one archaic, one ?PIII, and I found a base
to a side-notched projectile point, PIII…
[Becky]
Surveyed the area bounded by the barbed wire fence, cliff edge,
and our site boundaries in the NE corner...
w/ in today's survey area this was sparse artifact scatter: lithics,
sherds, some fire-cracked rocks, rusted cans
we found 2 projectile points: 1 archaic, one PIII, both
corner-notched
we also found a part of a projectile point: side-notched
(burro canyon chert)
-base large-3"
we also found a site: a pile of fire-cracked rocks
4-5' in diameter, a couple other piles,
as well as dense artifact scatter
we marked every artifact, made site boundaries, made
an artifact scatter boundary.
3 people (Kellam, Trevor, Tucker)
worked on a map, using a compass, pacing, and a protractor,
as well as a tape measure. Datum is in SW corner of the main part
of the site
2 people (Chelsea and Katie) marked ceramics,
starting with those just in the site, and
moving on to the artifact scatter. A lot of gray ware, and Chapin
w/ some later sherds such as McElmo
2 people (Seth and me) looked at lithics. We
also started w/ those in the main site.
We
saw a lot of Morrison mudstone. But also saw Morrison quartzite,
Burro Canyon mudstone, Burro Canyon
quartzite, Morrison chert, and Burro Canyon chert. Mainly there
were tertiary flakes, some cores, some core fragments, and one projectile
point. We had one bifacial pressure
flake and lot of "ugly" flakes. We did have one very
nice tertiary flake made of a beautiful Morrison chert that almost
looked like obsidian it was so nice.
-did not finish recording/mapping site-will finish on Thurs…
[Chelsea]
...Katie and I tallied sherds for concentration 1 as well as for
the general site, although did not complete our tally. Concentration
1 has so far yielded dozens of Chapin grayware sherds, (mostly
body, only a few rims) as well as a few dozen undifferentiated plain
grayware jar body sherds and a few undifferentiated corrugated jar
bodies. The general site has so far revealed 7 undifferentiated
plain grayware jar bodies, 6 Chapin gray jar bodies, 2 undifferentiated
corrugated jar bodies and several singular whiteware sherds of undifferentiated
black-on-white, McElmo black-on-white, Mesa Verde black-on-white,
undifferentiated PII/PIII whiteware and undifferentiated PIII whiteware.
Due to the high concentration of Chapin grayware (AD 575-950) in
concentration 1 alone and the lack of more modern sherds in this
concentration right now we would date the site to Basketmaker III
if we were just going off what the pottery tells us…
[Kellam]
LT-4 [5MT 17273] has 4 masonry-ish structures- the fire-cracked
rock things that are quite likely late Basketmaker, and a possible
pitstructure. Primarily, the artifact assemblage seems to lean towards
lithics, with some early grey wares and white ware; in terms of
diagnostics there was some Chapin grey, maybe B-on-W, also a Mesa
Verde B on W. All in all, indicative of Basketmaker. Flagged the
heck out of LT-4 [5MT 17273] once we decided it was a site-cool
colors, arbitrarily green blue and yellow (!) for lithics and hot
colors, red, pink for ceramics. Then we broke into teams, Chelsea
and Katie recording ceramics, Seth and Becky lithics, and Tucker,
Trevor and myself mapping the site. Tucker manned compass, Trevor
paced, and I sat and recorded. Knocked off about 4:00 came home.
Took a nice hot shower before dinner which was a taco salad affair-very
good: I could almost taste it.
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