Today we sorted the residue and flot, searching for quartz, black and brown chirt and flint in the former, seeds, pottery and shells in the latter. We don't have a botanist at our disposal, so the flot is a tricky endeavour -- due to the wind we have found an extensive amount of modern organic matter that has been blown into our trenches, so addition work has to be done to separate modern vegetation from what was actually in the context of the strata.
Much of the residue is simply naturally broken rocks, but there are several promising pieces, mostly chips from the working of quartz to make small tools for butchering. Tomorrow and Sunday we have been given the days off, since no further work can be done on the site in such high winds. Most of the group is going with Dr. Strasser for a day trip to Preveli Gorge, where he found his original lower Palaeolithic handaxes.
I chose to go raw-materials hunting with our resident geologist. A bonus of the long drives and searching in the hot sun -- I get a free tour of the western inlands of Crete!
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