Daily Trench Journal

Area C

Trench 1

July 31, 2002

Today I am back to Ayup and Ibrahim. Other than that the plan seems to be the same, to get as much done as possible since I am running out of time.

1093/1092 – This is the possible windbreak or some other sort of short wall and the surrounding matrix. Large pieces of pottery and bone are coming from 1093. Ayup thinks this is a possible burial but I haven’t seen any evidence of that. I brought the large pieces of bone to Rick to see if he thought they might look human at all and he said that they do not. I am stopping excavation of this locus for today.

1094 – This is a large area of fill, so I have Ibrahim in the East and Ayup in the West. On the western border of this locus more of the small mudbrick as of 1087 was found. The two gray courses of brick match up in an inverted level with those of 1087 (the new area is basically a flipped over version of 1087). There are also harder areas of possible mudbrick at the surface of this locus.

1097 – This is the ashy layer in front of the possible oven base 1098. Two soil samples were taken. One in front of the stones in front of the possible oven and one in the center of what might have been the work area. There is a thin bit of mudbrick possibly appearing in the western section. This may cut into 1087. I am closing this locus for the day.

1095 – This is the fill area between 1083 and 1087. I took out the loose (though in some places compact) dirt in this area in order to articulate the eastern line of 1087. Below the dirt is another layer of mudbrick.

I’m running out of dirt to dig that isn’t mudbrick.