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Week 3 Summary--week ending July 19, 2001

The bulk of the effort this week was spent on understanding the surface levels appearing in the N and S areas of the trench, separated by central mudbrick wall feature L5031. We have clearly reached two separate surfaces in the N and S (L5034 and L5027). Both appear to be one the same orientation, with their northern walls being in a NW-SE orientation. L5027 also has its W wall intact (L5008) which has a perfectly preserved seam with the surface in places.

The main question in my mind is whether the two areas, which I believe area domestic dwellings, are contemporary. Though the S surface is about 30 cm higher, the N surface is also slightly downslope. Currently I'm leaning towards them being slightly (relatively speaking) different in time period, as it looks like a surface from the S area may overlay the N surface.

Many ovens have appeared lately in N area, one which appears to be contemporary with the N-surface (L5033) and another on a more ambiguously associated surface (surface: L5028, oven: 5036). I think with a little careful digging we may be able to clarify the S surface and maybe the N surface by mid-next week. The central mudbrick wall L5031 still needs to be articulated as it had many rebuildings and we need to figure out which are associated with the surfaces. Also of interest is an emerging possible curved mudbrick wall abutting the E edge of the N surface.

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Journal Type Weekly
Date 2001-07-19
Year 2001
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.
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JW. (2012) "D-5-2001-07-019-Weekly from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 5". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/1bf13efe-e172-4c15-42e4-e7ea0ff107e4> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2xw4dc3t

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