AUGUST 13, 2005

From: Scott Beld
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: 20MD263 (Sias East) - August 13, 2005

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

We made it out to the site yesterday. John, Marianne, Dave, Nik, Kevin, and Greg made it out.

I started drawing the profiles of the 60 West trench in the morning.

We continued to excavate the 2x2 unit - units 0N-46W, 1N-46W, 0N-47W, and 1N-47W. We got it down to 30 cm. These units are producing several small sherdlets of grit tempered pottery (it appears to be early Late Woodland) and small fragments of calcined bone. We’re also recovering Upper Mercer and Bayport chert flakes. I made “the find of the day” while trowelling the floor of 1N-47W at 15 cm to take the floor photo – a Middle Woodland (ca. 200 B.C.-500 A.D.) projectile point base made from Bayport chert (see the picture below).

This Wednesday we’ll be doing lab work, washing and flotation at the Resource Building. Next Saturday we’ll plan on excavating at Sias East and continue to take the 2x2 unit deeper.

Hope to see you at the site.

Scott

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Scott G. Beld, Ph.D.
Research Associate II
The University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079
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