JULY 30, 2005

From: Scott Beld
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005
To: Oxbow Archaeologists
Subject: 20MD263 (Sias East) - July 30, 2005

Hi Oxbow Archaeologists,

Dave, Greg and I made it out to Sias East yesterday and continued excavating the 60 West trench. In the afternoon we got it down “1 Scott” (2 meters – see picture below) in unit 60W-South. There was a dark brown layer below the pale brown sand layer we identified last week. This layer appears to be ending at 2 meters. We didn’t find any cultural material yesterday – just snail shells and a few pebble. This is as deep as we’ll be able to take this unit. Next Saturday, I’ll start drawing the profiles and dig a shovel text in the middle of 60W-South to see what the strata look like deeper. We’ll also take down the upper levels of the 46-47 west units we began last week (we should find more cultural material there).

I’ll be on vacation and out of email contact this week, but I will be at CNC Wednesday evening and next Saturday. Wednesday we’ll do lab work at the Resource Building and next Saturday we’ll dig at Sias East.

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
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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Scott Beld in Test Trench 60 West (2 meters deep), July 30, 2005.

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