Tasked with explaining the formation of this archaeological site, we begin as follows: following the law of superposition, it makes

sense to assume that since the first stratum that between the green and brown lines contains only D artifacts, D is the oldest culture of the four. That this could not be otherwise will become more convincing as this analysis proceeds. It seems that as time passed and as D no longer inhabited this space, the ground was raised to the green line; owing to the arbitrary and rugged contour of this line, it appears likely that this elevation took place naturally. It seems, then, that C came to inhabit this space after the rise in elevation but, wanting to build the temple, decided to flatten the land by filling it in; this created the stratum between the red and green lines. Artifacts from both C and D appear in this stratum, and so it seems likely that C turned to the surrounding land for fill and, in the process, artifacts from D, while still remaining in their archaeological context, came to be used as part of the fill. The seemingly unintentional incorporation of artifacts from D into both the fill and the construction of the temple certainly constitutes cultural disturbance. To be sure, since artifacts from both C and D appear in the ground fill, as well as in theconstruction of the temple, it seems to be the case that since D certainly came before C, it is C that was responsible for both the ground elevation and the construction of the temple. Because no artifacts from B appear in the ground fill or in the construction of the temple, it seems reasonable to assume that B could not have been responsible for either. That B was a more recent culture than C will become more certain. While it is difficult to say whether C and B were cotemporaneous, it seems unproblematic to assume that B not only inhabited the same space, but that it also made use of the same living floor; this is because there is an artifact from B that is resting on the red line. Moreover, it seems as if B, although a different culture than C, made use of the temple; it seems as if B and C each created a burial site underneath the floor of the temple (this is an example of cultural deposition). Also, the fact that there are only artifacts from B inside the room of the temple, coupled with the observation that Cs burial site is located deeper in the floor of the temple than that of Bs, further contributes to our understanding that B was the more recent culture. It then seems as if the area, once again, came to have no inhabitants and overtime came to be covered by natural processes, with the ground elevated to the pink line. By noting that midden #2 only contains artifacts from A and that its top is flush with the pink line, we can reasonably conclude that this pink line seems to have served as the living floor for A. It follows, then, that since the houses base rests on this floor, it was A that built the house. Furthermore, it seems as if A, through a process of reuse, used as the floor of the house the top of the temple built by C; of course, the idea of reuse only holds if we come to conclude that the top of the temple was exposed when A came across it. In addition, the deep and narrow isolated stratum, the one in the west that stretches from the pink line down to the green one, seems to have been dug by A; this is because it seems to have been dug from As living floor and, invoking the idea of reverse stratigraphy, an artifact from A is found at the same vertical depth as the living floor of B and C. Furthermore, there is a burial site underneath the house that contains one artifact from A and one from C; coupled with what has been said so far, this supports the idea that it was A that built the house. Lastly, if we look at the stratum between blue and pink, which we could call, if you will, As living space, we see artifacts from all four cultures; it seems as if A reclaimed these artifacts that is, brought them out of their archaeological context

and into its systematic one perhaps from the deep, narrow pit it dug. After A it seems that the area was, once again, inhabited by no one and then covered over and the ground naturally elevated to the blue line.