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.fd Daily journal for T804
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.ri jW

-wk No field workmen reported today.

-sf This was a scheduled UGR preparation day for all of the staff, who worked at home.  eA continued to process objects.  sE completed templates and prepared Harris Matrices for all new features.  jN worked on accouting for all items site-wide.  jW pepared a stratigraphic analysis and worked on resolving surveying issues with Adib.  The staff met with gB, mKB, and fAB to develop a new stratigraphic sequence, J5A, based on the site-wide sequence, MZA, and the MZ21 sequence, JPC.  The focus of this initial session was on the early periods (pre-Mittani) since the work of last season established a good sequence for the Mittani period and thereafter.  After a field review tomorrow we will assign strata to features f201 to f240 and to review types of contact.

-su Throughout season 21 and into season 22 we have observed the deleterious effects of running water on the surfaces immediately outside of the revetmment wall systems.  The erosion problem has occasioned the construction of stone structures to channel water and to stabilize horizontal surfaces.  From the late Mittani period to at least the Early Dynastic II period we have observed the erosion effects and what remains of the stabilization structures.  One of the goals of the season was to determine the shape of the temple mound in the Late Chalcolithic period.  The constant erosion problem is strong circumstantial evidence that the Early Dynastic revetment wall system was built on earlier period remains which included a rise to the north and west.