DOI counsel sits down. Woodward back at podium. Judge Reyes: when was there first a plan to close the golf course on Nov. 15. Woodward: the plan was *concluded*, the plan was completed on October 28.

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Quail in a 19th c mining camp, that's a fun one. Cheap protein that people could net or trap themselves, maybe, or even tinned or market birds. Good luck with the write-up, those always take longer than the digging.

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Same impression here. The earliest securely domestic chickens in the Levant seem to date to the Iron Age, and a lot of older 'chicken' bones turned out to be pheasant or partridge once people rechecked them.

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CHICKEN FACT: Chickens were originally kept only as pets (and for the eggs). There is no evidence that anyone ate them before around 250 BC. There are also plenty of records of them being buried alongside humans, suggesting they were thought important companions, or even sacred.

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A few years ago I was part of a big research project on the archaeology of chickens. It's sad how our perception of them has changed. Once symbols of bravery, in touch with the Divine, now cowardly and foolish. Of course, people who know them well understand that it is us who have changed, not them

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