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Daily Trench Journal
Area F
Trench 1
July 20, 2002
Okay, now I realize that we are just supposed to talk about our trenches here, but I want to add some insight into what is going on here in Bismil, Turkey. Today is July 21, 2002, which is the day after yesterday. We didn’t go out to the site today because everyone had to go to the doctor’s office to be tested for Typhoid. That’s right, Typhoid. We all had to be tested for Typhoid because Sibel did have Typhoid. So we all went and got tested, and incredibly the people who all felt really sick, like me, don’t have Typhoid, while the people who all feel fine, like Dawnell, Katie, Jonathan, etc. etc. all had Typhoid. So Typhoid is in the house.
But anyway!
Began the day by taking down the hump of hard pack, perhaps mudbricky material, between the end of L1069 and L1073, the two bricky material loci which are not walls which we thought were but are probably pavements. This hard part was done as part of L1072. We also wanted a cross section of 1069 to see if it was a wall or if it was really a pavement. We still think it was probably part of a pavement and not a wall after we created a cross section.
At the same time we brought down the slump on the S side of 1069 in the loci 1077 and 1061 which were fill and also a pit area (1077 was the pit area). So then we once again started to look at the trench.
It makes me feel somewhat better that Andy and Dawnell have a hard time understanding my trench. They are both so smart and good at what they do. Andy did indicate that he thought he saw some lines in the SW quadrant of my trench. So we troweled down in that area to make it very level and then sprayed. What we saw was very interesting. I saw two very clear lines, but the bricky material was white and not really red, but to the side of these two lines I saw bricky material all around. But the bricks didn’t appear to be uniform in size or anything like that. So my new hypothesis is that what we have been chopping through has been bricky material from the collapse of a wall onto a surface. The bricks have in most cases been so tough to see and broken apart that we haven’t actually seen any rhyme or reason to the material, but a huge collapse would explain why, even though the brick material feels like brick it looks just like a bunch of fill.
Gave the area inside the two lines the L1080, a new hopefully wall locus.
Went down on the NW quadrant about 5-10 cm. Not much found, just assorted pieces of pottery in the mucky muck.
Typhoid. And they have all been vaccinated. Insane.
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Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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Date | 2002-07-20 |
Year | 2002 |
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. |
Suggested Citation
Chris Moon. (2012) "F-1-2002-07-20 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area F/Trench 1/Locus 1057". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/77cc4c46-7ff3-4c45-1f56-95eab004e865> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k24x59018
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