2011 Culturally Modified Landscapes from Past to Present

We determined that an area northeast of M18 and parallel to M25 was possibly a small mound andlabeled it M9710. This number was selected to coincide with the day, month and year of collection,although a slight error led to the month being coded incorrectly. I scraped around the surface near thestake we had placed into this area and found a collection of cobbles, indicating a mound. We continuedto surface scrape about a 25 cm area and found cobbles, but no surface ceramics or other artifacts. Afterfinishing collecting specimens within the 40 m plot, we set up stakes around a one-meter region in thecenter of this plot. We recorded plants through collection number 214.Figure 13: Plot 7, near Mounds 18, 25.Plot 8Finally, we set out to locate M73 (Figure 14). This mound was located at some distance from themain center of Yalbac and would prove a good contrast to the other house mounds collected from, whichhad been relatively close to the Yalbac center. We located M73 and adjoining mound, which we labeled17