.bk A9
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.fd preliminary statement of MZ14 A9 excavation strategy
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.ed L618
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-sg in discussing overall strategy for the season's excavations with gb, he pointed out that our end goal is to obtain a better sense of the southern rim of the late settlements that have been uncovered to the west and east of A9 in A2, A7 and A11 that frame the accumulations atop the AK courtyard.   To achieve that, we will lay out an array of squares oriented to the present grid which will extend the north limit line of the A7 late settlement excavations approximately 25 meters to the east to meet the northern extension of the east limit line of the A 11 excavations.  In addition we will superimpose the present grid system on earlier excavations in A2 and the step trench to give an overall sense to the organization of the settlement as seen from above.  To assist in the visual interpretation we have removed the backfill from A11, and we will remove the backfill from the settlement portions of A7, clean up the A2 excavation and remove all the weeds.  We plan to excavate horizontally to expose the first settlement and stop for this season, even though completed excavations in A7, A9 and A11 have also exposed part of the earlier, penultimate settlements.