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Daily Trench Summary

Area D

Trench 5

August 12, 2002

Since we now have a plan shot of the trench at the full extent of the single Ubaid context as best we can determine right now, it was time to start hacking things out (carefully, of course) to confirm or refute our assumptions, get exposed material out before the end of the season, and try to get an impression of what to expect for next season.

The grain surface, L5098, was divided into four quadrants, L5142-L5145, and removed to 5 centimeters depth. A float and microanalysis sample was taken from each quadrant. In the SW quadrant a pot smash was uncovered and left in situ for the moment. A fairly good painted pot reconstruction may be possible from it. In the NE quadrant a rather impressive circle-painted rim sherd was uncovered and left in situ for the moment. In the more northerly areas, a new hard surface, L5148, was uncovered between 5 and 10 cm below the grain surface. In areas where there was more than 5 cm between to, the intervening space was excavated as L5146.

L5080, the hearth area on the grain surface was removed as well. It appears to have been slightly set into the grain surface so either contemporary or a very shallow later addition, my guess would be the former. The grindstone that came out of it was designated KT 5573 (L5080 is still on the old KT system).

We also got to removing the mudbrick walls in the S that have been standing for about a year now and, to say the least, they are very nice mudbrick walls. But now they’re gone (mostly). To get a little control, the N-S wall was designated L5139, whereas the E-W wall was divided into two loci, the westerly part until it joins L5139 is L5141 and the easterly equivalent is L5140. A mudbrick sample was taken from the N-S wall for pollen analysis (KT 5139.1). Oddly enough, among the spartan collection of artifacts recovered from the wall were three obsidian blade fragments, KT 5139.3, 5139.5 and 5139.6.

Finally, we took some time towards the end of the day to investigate the hard surface in the W room of the mudbrick structure and we were able to trace it under the N wall of the structure. It is decidedly circular in shape, leading me to believe it was originally the bottom of an oven or something similar which was re-used in the currently exposed phase as the base for a surface (as there were some very thin layers of plaster atop it towards the end of last season. The surface itself was given a locus today, L5149.

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Date 2002-08-12
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

Andrew Ugan, Eleanor Moseman, Greer Rabicca. (2012) "D-5-2002-08-12 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 5/Locus 5080". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/8aa3c663-4dc5-4a32-f95d-53d83ad24c58> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2bc3zd32

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