Las Bocas, Puebla, Archaeological Project

Third Field Season, 2000

Activities

The exploration works began by rectifying the line corresponding to the transect along which pits I, II and III had been alternately excavated, to use it as a base line to lay out a grid and place in it the extensive excavations of this season.

In the 1998 season we had placed two bench marks built with cement and iron rods at each end of the transect; the one corresponding to the northern station located towards the bank of the fluvial terrace was still in place, while the one corresponding to the southern station had been removed.

To rectify the transect line we proceeded to measure the distance between the pits excavated in 1998, starting at the north station and post marking the SE edge of each one of them, thus obtaining a measurement of 44.20 m, to which we added 5.80 m so that that the base line of the transect had a distance of 50.0 m in a N-S direction. There, a bench mark with iron rods and cement was placed, to replace the lost southern station.

Once the transect was verified, we saw that the distance between pits II and III was 18.0 m, too long a stretch of land to extend an excavation in-between, considering we only had 45 days for our explorations. Calculating the volume of earth removed in 19 days of work during 1998, and because of the archaeological contexts we had detected during that season, which had forced us due to their nature, to carry out a very slow and careful excavation, we decided to only extend the excavations of 2000 to the areas nearby pits III and IV.

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