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August 6, 2000
The purpose of this small trench (2 m x 2 m) is to see the stratigraphic information of this area. this trench is located just west of trench 1 in area D. Basically I am excavating the NE corner of the trench. We will excavate every 25 cm and call it a level. The main aim is to see what is below, so I will try not to take much time on this. But, I will still pay my attention not to blow off some walls!
Level 1 Since the slope is steep, I decided to create an arbitrary leveled surface and call it a level 1. I did not excavte much in East side, since West side was about 1 m higher. We found many broken pot-sherds, and lithics. This level is just a disturbance zone, washed from the slope above.
Level 2 I suppose to excavte 25 cm, but luckly? I found a possible surface. I decided to stop excavting further and call it a level 2. (excavted about 10 cm feom the end of level 1). Befire reaching the surface, I found concentration of large rocks (about 5 - 10 cm in diameter, mostly round), randomly placed. Right below that rabble, we found a surface. The surface is very loose, even brushing makes things dirty! We tried to clean the surface, but all we did was to blow more soil up into the air and around. The surface contained small pebbells and flat-lying sherds. The soil was fine-sand and gray to white in color. On the surface, we found a large piece of what it seems to be a leg of a large pot. I took it up as a small find. the pot-sherds seems to be from a Hellenistic period. We will excavte 25 cm from this level tomorrow, if it is possible, I want to finish 2 or 3 levels a day.
| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
|---|---|
| Date | 2000-08-06 |
| Year | 2000 |
| 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
Randy Sasaki. (2012) "D-3-2000-08-06 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 3/Locus 3004". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/b278b3dc-daf3-438c-c384-223ec58b4ae5> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k28916693
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