August 29, 2001
| Today's Goals: | Continue with the profile mapping of the south and top trenches on Mound A, and continue excavation of the north trench. Tammy Cooper's birthday was today, celebrated at the site. |
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Filling sandbags atop Mound A, using screened fill from the excavation units. The sandbags will be used to protect the units from water, and to stabilize the trenches as we close down. The plan is to leave the trenches covered and stabilized until we return, tentatively planned for next spring. From left to right: Robert Hellman, Chuck Lawson, Margo Schwadron, Jessica McNeil, and Steve Kidd. |
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Tammy Cooper and Rachel Horlings filling sandbags atop Mound A. Several hundred sandbags will be needed to stabilize the trenches. An hour or more each day is now spent in this effort.. |
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Profile of the gray clay platform atop Mound A, in N50E181, west wall profile. |
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Close up of the gray clay platform atop Mound A, in N50E181, west wall profile. Note the thin red clay cap over the gray clay. |
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Tammy Cooper with her birthday cake and card during the lunch break. The crew took her to dinner at Pickwick Landing in the evening. |
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A close up of the birthday cake celebrating Tammy's birthday. Note the river and mound. |
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Mound stage clay cap located in the north step trench, in N70E181. Evidence for internal mound stage clay capping surfaces is turning up in many of the units in the north trench now, as the units get deeper into the mound. |