SEPTEMBER 1 and 3, 2007

From: Scott Beld
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:30 PM
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: Naugle Site - September 1 and 3, 2007

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

We made it out to the Naugle site on Saturday and again on Monday. We had excellent weather both days.

On Saturday morning, Nik, Marianne, Diane and I finished the 2x10 meter block that we have been excavating west of the wigwam (see Photo 1). We excavated units 13S-30E and 14S-30E to finish the block. We only recovered a few flakes and some F.C.R.

Greg and Lia showed up at noon and Diane, Greg, Lia and I opened a new area closer to the river in order to try to locate the old excavations. We opened units 1S-18E, 1S-19E, 2S-20E, 2S-21E (see Photo 2). These units produced a large quantity of flakes and fire cracked rock. We also recovered a triangular point from 1S-18E (Late Woodland, see Photo 3) and expedient point (see Point 4). We only noticed one piece of grit-tempered pottery.

On Monday, Diane and I excavated the units we opened on Saturday to 40 and 50 cm below the surface. There is still quiet a few flakes at 50 cm – they appear to be coming mainly from rodent burrows. We also opened units 1S-20E and 1S-21 E. Besides flakes and firecracked rock, we found a expedient triangular point (see Photo 5), a point blade from a notched point (Photo 6), and two endscrapers (see Photo 7 and Photo 8).

We’ll either be excavating at Naugle or working the Resource Building this Saturday.

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
1109 Geddes Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079
Phone: 734-764-0489 (UMMP Main Office)
734-763-9253 (My Office)
Fax: 734-936-1380
Email: sbeld@umich.edu
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