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Daily Trench Journal
Area D
Trench 5
August 1, 2002
The greater part of the morning was focused on getting the far N portion of the W baulk down so that we can excavate the human skeleton partially enclosed in it. As mentioned previous, this skeleton could be at the bottom of one of several pits in the area or it could be a body encased in the collapse that seems to have sealed all the Ubaid contexts or, possibly, it could be a proper, albeit very strange, burial. This was completed near breakfast time, including cleaning. I left about 30 cm above the current level of excavation where the skeleton was uncovered to allow for excavation to determine context and also to make sure we didn’t accidentally throw away any of said skeleton.
Excavation work did not begin on the skeleton today, however, as the worker I was going to put on the task (my best) had to go home with a rather nasty sprain to his right hand. Thus I focused on trying to uncover the contexts surrounding the skeleton by making two soundings, on E-W against the northern baulk in a still poorly understood region (L5130) and another between the areas of certain Ubaid contexts and the region of the burial in a N-S configuration against the W baulk (L5129). The latter did confirm my belief that we had gotten below the plaster-lined 2nd/3rd millennium pit which had been dominating the region for several weeks. The question now is what is going on. There is definitely a concentration of multi-colored mudbricks (green, yellow, pink, red and brown) with perhaps some organization to their placement, though right now the existence of such is a to-be-proven matter. The other question is, obviously, are these mudbricks contemporary with the other Ubaid contexts further to the S. One complicating factor in the matter may be a somewhat severe slope which could place the contexts in this region of the trench up to 20-30 cm below the current level or excavations if the grain surface the differing founding levels of the two SE ovens are any indicator. Regardless, the only option I can see is further excavations.
Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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Date | 2002-08-01 |
Year | 2002 |
Has note | The purpose of the daily journal was to record the activities taking place in a trench each day. This included which loci were excavated, how and why loci were excavated and the ongoing impressions of the relationships among loci. It should be noted that journals record the actions, impressions and ideas of trench supervisors during the excavations. They are not, therefore, the final interpretations or syntheses of the emerging data. |
Suggested Citation
Andrew Ugan, Eleanor Moseman, Greer Rabicca. (2012) "D-5-2002-08-01 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 5/Locus 5080". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/05806458-6189-4311-2f71-4d5f204f7404> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2mw2dx2z
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