| 2006-9-21 | jW | kD, a visiting Environmental Archaeolgist, examined the unit with jW to briefly study the material used to make the baqaya glacis, f109, the wahal glacis, f152, and the mud glacis, f241. If possible, we would like to know whether these features are natural or man-made. The baqaya is found under the surface soils and would have to have been dug elsewhere and carried to the temple mound to be used as a coating. The wahal is relatively clean and is composed of silt and sand. The cleanliness and the hard uniform surface make it more likely than not to have been carried to the mound and compacted there. The mud glacis has many sherds and pebbles. This could have resulted from erosion and transport from higher on the mound after Mittani abandonment or it could have been carried to the mound from elswhere. | [Input File: Q921jW.j] |