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Summer 2008 Update
Urban Archaeology
Lip and Rim shapes
Assemblage Analysis I
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Analysis Of Hearth F5 and F53
Phase II Research
Test Unit 5 Features
Test Unit 5 Closes
Bone Pin Tools
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1st Field School
Residential Patterns
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The strategic placement of Test Unit Five (TU5) has proven effective.  This unit has provided us with consistency on a number of levels and has provided us with some unique evidence of Blueberry’s prehistoric occupants as well.  Consistent with TU’s 4 & 5, the stratigraphy of this unit demonstrates two discernable Belle Glade middens (anthrosols) separated by relatively sterile white (10YR 7/1) sand and underlain by the same white sand (representing a “C” Horizon) beneath the lower midden.  TU 5 will be coming to a close in the very near future and a summary of features with around 90% of the unit complete is as follows.  There have been 26 post molds discovered in the unit thus far.  The breakdown of all other feature categories is listed below.
 
Feature # - Feature Type - Description/Contents
1 - Storage Pit - Left Handed Whelk Tool (complete)
2 - Storage Pit - Collumella Tool
6 - Pot Burst Pit Feature (Top of Upper Midden)  - Inverted Belle Glade Vessel with      associated Pinellas Point and AMS C14 Date from Carbon Residue on sherd: 1640 AD +/- 40
8 - Construction Pit - Contained Manufactured Post (F9)
15 - Construction Pit -  Contained a Manufactured Posts (F13, 14, 16, 20, 21)
18  -Construction Pit - Contained Manufactured Post (F17)
19 - Amorphous Stain Midden Remnant
28 - Pit - Disposal Pit
35 - Hearth Residential Hearth