Up to date info from 2010 excavation
- Thanks to everyone for all your hard work during this excavation season.
- On Friday we finished excavating at Líšeň. Artifacts were recovered from a Pleistocene soil sediment, a 40 cm thick deposit between the topsoil and the underlying sterile sediment.
- 18/VIII: We continue digging at Líšeň and wet-sieving of sediments.
- 16/VIII: We are finishing Ondratice and will start at Lisen on Tuesday.
- 14-15/VIII: We are taking a break over the rainy weekend.
- 12-13/VIII: We are digging at Želešice. We excavated over a hundred artifacts from three separate stratigrafic units. We found hearths. The artifacts were excavated from an upper loessic sedimet, from a brown soil sediment, and from a lower orange-brown sediment - see the profile. On Friday, the Želešice dig was backfilled. We such continue digging in Ondratice, where we cleaned profiles and documented another hearth.
- 10-11/VIII: We have more artifacts including endsraper and two points from Želešice. Artifacts are in two stratigraphically separated horizons - upper colluvial sediments and lower dark brown paleosoil rich in charcoal.
- 9/VIII: American team continues at Ondratice. We harvested small area in Želešice and realized an limited-scale excavation. We found artifacts from the upper part of intact most probably colluvial sediments located between topsoil and miocene sands.
- 7-8/VIII: We are taking a break over the weekend and planning to start in Zelesice on Monday.
- 6/VIII: Raining.
- 5/VIII: We sieved excavated sediments in Říčka river using 3 mm sieves and found a lot of tiny artifacts. We such floated samples using respectively 0.2 mm cotton filter and found a lot of charcoal and macro-remains.
- 4/VIII: We slowly continue digging - people are watching as Peter is digging. Harvest in Želešice has began!
- 3/VIII: We cleaned the profile exposing a hearth and excavated it. The hearth set in a shallow depression, is ca. 1.5 x 1 m in size and it’s filled with baked clay and large pieces of charcoal. It contains dozens of tiny artifacts, some burnt.
- 2/VIII: Due to rainy weather, the field in Želešice is not yet harvested. We have to move our large crew to Ondratice, where we continue excavating in Trench 5.