July 26, 2000

We are cutting the section in the middle of the trench and we are looking for lines and we saw the white material in the North side of the trench for the first time. But as with the South Side, these white pieces are not forming a line which would indicate some sort of architecture.

We decided to dig the higher part of L1007 in the middle so we will have a section. And then we will remove the rest.

We found a piece of teeth in the section in the middle, it might be an animal bone buried there or related with the surface (Elvan's kitchen).

We cleaned the West surface and began a probe from there heading East to the middle of the nice-rimmed pot and Elvan's kitchen. Also, in the very Northwest corner, there are some bones and loose soil which we will open as L1008, a pit.

I removed a large piece of pottery about half way down the probe, 10cm below the surface of the kitchen.

In the probe we found some rocks at the level of the West side of the trench. They look like they are a circle. And some cobbles also.

We found some white chalk-like particles in the Northern side of the middle section. We opened a new locus 1008, we thought there was a pit but we couldn't find too much pottery or bones in it. It was obvious that it was loose.

We are now cutting 1007, from the probe to the South side. We will try to find the rest of Peter's pot. Before breakfast we thought there was some mud brick in the NW part but we couldn't see the edges. There were some lines but probably they were because of the roots.

We have a bunch of so-so stuff and it is hard to put it all together. The rock circle seems promising as the dirt in the wall above it is very pebbly. The kitchen even seems to form a circle. I found some ash in the Southwest corner, but we have no facilities to remove it.