Weekly Trench Summary

Week 4

Area C

Trench 1

June 9, 2005

This week we reopened C1 that has not been excavated since the 2003 field season. While a majority of the excavation this season is focused on ‘Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic periods, this side of the tepe has not been extensively investigated in the last two seasons. This is mainly due to the fact that these trenches seem to be firmly entrenched in the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC. Bradley decided, however, that it would be a good idea to also investigate what was happening on this side of the tepe since there is a gap in our understanding of life here between Late Chalcolithic and the 2nd millennium BC. So here I am! and I love it.

This opening week (actually half a week for this trench) was focused mainly on cleaning and establishing where the old loci were and beginning to move down to clean loci. At this point that is the extent of information on this trench. The mud brick walls from 2003 are still apparent as are some excavated pits and the rock walls. Hopefully next week will provide more information.