JULY 4, 2009

From: Scott Beld
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:09 PM
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: Sias East - July 4, 2009

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

    Marianne, Nik, Becky, Kevin, Lia, and I made it out to the site yesterday and had a good day excavating.

    We spent the day taking the units in the 3S row that we were excavating last week to 30-35 cm and some of the units in the 2S row that we began last year to 35-40 cm (see Map). The units in the 3S row are producing numerous flakes, bone fragments, some pottery and F.C.R. The deeper units in the 2S row are producing less material though there may be a couple small features in 2S-103W and 2S-102W.

    We recovered three interesting artifacts yesterday. 2S-102W produced a heavily reworked hafted biface/point (see Photo 1). We recovered a biface from 3S-102W (see Photo 2). And we found another rimsherd from the crosshatched Rueben Linear vessel (Photo 3 -- also see Rueben Linear Rimsherd).

    This week we will plan on excavating at Sias East on both Wednesday evening and Saturday. I forgot my camera Saturday and still need to take pictures of the unit floors, so I'll be at the site Wednesday afternoon.

    Hope to see you at the site.

Scott

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Scott G. Beld, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory Specialist - Intermediate The University of Michigan
Museum of Paleontology
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079
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