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August 5, 2001

We leave for Lake Van this afternoon, and many people, myself included, are a little behind on their database entry, so we only had a half-day today on site. My day was not even half a day. We had a couple of things to do this morning that we assumed would take the rest of the day, and then the plan was to get a spider shot of the entire trench first thing in the morning on the day we get back. The items of business that we had ended up taking up less than half of the day, so we ended up closing shop a little earlier than other trenches and I worked on getting my locus descriptions caught up.

Anyway, we first took out the areas in L1036 that are on a directly parallel line with L1037, the black ashy layer. As we expected the ashy layer continued underneath the locus. We are making L1037 go straight up to the wall for the day, although it does appear that the locus may have actually ended 15 to 20 cm before the baulk. As we expected the dirt was relatively hard, followed by the soft dirt which precedes the revealing of the black ashy layer of DOOM. We also took down what remains of L1028 another 10 cm or so to see if the black ashy layer appears on the other side of the trench. On this particular area the black ashy layer does not appear, although it may continue farther to the north instead of in the far south side. There does appear to be a small change in the composition of the soil, as it looks as though there may be some charred surfaces associated with this.  The actual dirt is still light brown, and obviously not as black as the black ashy layer. Just to be safe we decided to name this fill a new locus, L1038.

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Date 2001-08-05
Year 2001
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

Bradley J. Parker, Chris Moon. (2012) "F-1-2001-08-05 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area F/Trench 1/Locus 1028". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/b215d0d2-542a-4898-067a-d7e4a244f458> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2jh3jj72

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