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Kenantepe 2005         Page 1

Datum: 587.95 (located to the NW of D.5)

Trench: D.5

Date: May 25, 2005

Work continued in the areas of L.5207 and L. 5209. We removed most of the hard clayey soil of L.5209. Only small area of it with the concentration of stones (some of them are chert flakes) was left for tomorrow’s removal. I had thought that it might have been a surface sloping toward NE but it is not really understood.

The bricks of the wall L.5212 are visible in the late morning without the tent over the trench. It seems that it is about 2.50 m long but its E end is unclear due to lack of preservation.

L.5207 and L.5217 were met at the range of 586.20-586.28 meter. We began opening skull L.5221 in the South part of L.5217 and it looks it belongs to a human (a baby?). I will open it tomorrow because there was not enough time to remove it completely. In the same time, I will drop the major collection areas (Loci 5207, 5217 and 5209) and give a new locus number. The areas I have been excavating seem to represent an open space where the various outdoor activities might have been taking place over the course of time with which the cultural deposits were accumulating and thickening the trench. Those activities might have been short creating small feature areas, such as the plaster surfaces L.52165 and L.5218, the gravel with coarse sand pile L.5219 or L.5209. Even though the nature of those activities is unclear, it seems to me that they may have been related to each other because they occupy small spaces that are in close proximity with each other. In addition, having these features at the edge of the "Ubaid" settlement may make sense. The location that was suitable for some kind of outdoor activity which did not required to have many lithic tools or pottery, and perhaps, did not have to be so close to the occupation areas of the settlement.

Tomorrow, I plan to excavate w/ big pick since we are excavating poorly preserved and unclear outdoor areas with heavy deposit. I am hoping that I can have better preservation about 25-30 cm below, a level where a thick (ca. 10cm) layer of ash is visible on the W and N sections of the 1x1m sounding in the SW corner.

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Date 2005-05-25
Year 2005
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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Suggested Citation

Bekir Gürdil. (2012) "D-5-2005-05-25 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 5/Locus 5207". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/27cf8125-f1e1-4c4b-4e97-01a8cc675242> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2qf8q194

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