Writing Wednesday: More on the Levigation Pool

I am committed to finishing the article that I started this winter by the end of the upcoming weekend so we can move on to more interesting (or at least less familiar) material at Polis. My current writing has focused on clarifying the structure and chronology of what we have identified as a levigation pool near a pottery kiln at Polis. Some of what I’ve included below is similar to what I wrote earlier this year, but I managed to develop some of the description more fully (as well as the analysis of finds; you’ll notice that some of the finds information is not quite complete or legible here). We’ve also started to play with using ChatGPT to clean up sketches in the notebooks and even export these sketches as vector files. This is particularly important for us as we study features like the levigation pool which never received formal documentation by the project’s architects. The images below were originally on densely gridded notebook paper. ChatGPT was able to extract the line…