Unit Book A9

A9-procedures

Processed on 2023-08-22

Date	Author	Record
1997-06-17	jlw	Areas A6 and A9, immediately to the north share a common boundary. Previous excavations in A6, which was aligned to the AS trench used for early excavations, had found a major E-W wall along the northern boundary, a doorway in that wall, and a small portion of a N-S wall originating just to the east of the doorway and extending to the north. This year, when the grid was reoriented to the alignment of building AK, these features were incorporated into the southern boundary of A9 and became the points of departure for exploration of the more northerly parts of AK. Three squares were laid out, two along the southern border and one immediately to the north. The southern boundary of A9K1, to the far southeast, was shortened to four meters to assure it fell completely within the portion we wished to excavate, while A9K2 to the east was full-sized. The full southern boundary of A9 was delineated by a pin placed on the first available unexcavated surface to the west. Square A9K3, to the north, was offset two meters to the west of the eastern edge of A9 to explore for the prevoiusly mention N-S wall, while at the same time also avoiding the worst effects of a deep wadi which extends NE from the doorway in the middle of the southern border. Adequate space was left to the west for Area 2 to excavate two full-sized squares. [Input: H620JLW1.j]
2000-07-30	jlw	While processing the journal files for MZ10A9, several problems involving the "J" and "E" programs were discoved. Among others were that a file that satisfatorily passed the "J" program's requirements would not run on the "E" program. Most of the problems were those of formatting. For example, the J program accepted a typical entry of "ei jo" vice ".ei jo", while the "E" program rejected "ei jo". Since the "E" program does not precisely specify the nature of the errors it finds, it is much harder to identify and correct them at that stage. There are two systematic problems in the "E" program. First, some files with no apparent defects, are rejected when run the first time. If immediatedly run again, they will be accepted. Second, in the rare event that the first feature and the first aggregate are documented in the same file, data for both a1 and f1 will be entered in the "A" file and there will be no data for f1 in the "F" file. A simple experiment that split the original journal file into two journal files that separated the data for a1 and f1, proved that the problem could be worked around and that once the output files were properly established, the "E" program distributed subsiquent data to the proper place. Specifically for A9 file H620jo.j will be split into two files, K730jlw1 containing data for f1, and K730jlw2 containing the data for a1 and incidental entries. [Input: K730JLW3.j]
2001-06-17	jlw	jlw reviewed files from MZ12 (1999-J) to determine the last numbers assigned to the various entries into the data system. They are as follows: relays-r406, features-f194, qlot-q645, item-i97, aggregate-a22, loci-k9, plots-p21, views-v55, strata-s14, drawings-w27, and sketches-s15. [Input: L617JLW2.j]
2001-06-17	jlw	the following are the starting numbers for the excavations in A9 during the MZ14(2001-L) season: aggregates-a23, drawings-w28, features-f195, items-i98, loci-k10, plots-g1, qlots-q646, relays-r407, scripts-q1, sketches-16, views-v56, scans w1. [Input: L617JLW2.j]
2001-06-19	jlw	In reviewing the plot files it appears as if certain of them should really be drawings. In MZ12(1999-J) we ran an experiment whereby a final plot would be developed in stages that involved relays, AutoCAD and detailed pencil and pen renderings of what would eventually be incorporated into the next set of plots. Each stage was assigned a separate plot number, whereas the ones partially drawn by hand should have been assigned drawing numbers. To bring the experiment into agreement with the master file system, the pencil renderings will be designated as drawings, whereas the plot numbers will refer to the underlying AutoCAD output that serves as their reference. The following are the new drawing numbers: p2 becomes w18, p4 becomes w19, p6 becomes w20, p8 becomes w21, p9 becomes w22, p14 becomes w23, p16 becomes w24, p19 becomes w25, p20 becomes w26, and p21 becomes w27. [Input: L619JLW.j]
2001-06-19	jlw	correcting the MZ14(2001-L) list of starting numbers developed on L617, the first drawing this year should be w28 in lieu of w27. [Input: L619JLW.j]