2013 DSR added to downloads section
The 2013 Data Structure Report (DSR) is now available to download here.
A DSR is a technical excavation report – an intermediate summary to define the results, initial interpretation and questions that assist developing in post-excavation analysis and subsequent strategy. As usual, it must be stressed that the document is report of its day and our interpretation of the site has evolved considerably over the last two decades.
This is the last of the overall reports, with the complexity of excavation meaning that each building got its own separate DSR from 2014.
The 2013 excavation season focused on Trench P, the main aims being:
- Further clarification of nature of the site and its chronology in relationship to the rest of the World Heritage Site.
- To uncover the full extent of Structure Eight with the removal of infills across its south-western half.
- To further investigate the structural sequence of Structure One, with the revealing of floor deposits relating to its major secondary remodelling.
- To further explore the northern corner of the main trench and investigate the structural sequence of Structure Fourteen, with the revealing of floor deposits.
- To further investigate Structure Twelve; the incomplete nature of its eastern wall; and further removal of infill within its main structure down to later floor levels.
- To clarify the history of of the internal chamber of Structure Ten, with the removal of secondary structural modifications.
- To refine the relationships between all of the structures so far revealed and their chronology.
- To sample and analysis floor deposits using a portable XRF machine
- The continuation of stringent sampling methodology across the site for the retrieval of environmental and dating material.
- To investigate the nature of the large mound at the southern tip of the site (Trench T) that geophysical survey suggested was defined by several concentric anomalies and had been previously test-pitted in 2006.
