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Trench Daily Journal
Area F
Trench 1
July 13, 2002
We began the day by finally removing a couple of cm’s of dirt in the so far untouched area of the trench that had been underneath the oven and so had been given a separate locus. We really only removed about 3 or 4 cm’s and then ended the locus. It was a small area by now. We did take a soil sample since there was a distinct reddish splotch in one part, which may have been caused by material being burned. This soil sample was for chemical analysis.
From there we pushed Locus 1071 down until it was level with the large part of the trench that had been pushed down to one level. We had not seen much of a color change or dirt change, so we kept this as the same locus. We wanted to get the area down to the level of the potsmash to see if there was an obvious surface and also if there were any more flat lying pottery in the area of the potsmash. The potsmash found on Thursday was pretty big and height measurements seemed to indicate that the bottom of the potsmash would be about level with the current level of much of the trench, around 568.04. We chopped down to this level and unfortunately did not see an obvious surface. In addition there was not tons of pottery or any flat lying sherds around this area. But whatever. The smash was about 24 cm in diameter and nearly circular, but of course it was not complete. The smash had some rims to help with identification, as well as a very interesting ring base on the bottom. This smash is an excellent diagnostic piece of Chalcolithic pottery. Gave the potsmash KT9 of locus 1071. Another significant find today in locus 1071 was an excellent example of worked obsidian. This was obviously a blade, so we made it a small find and gave it the KT6 of the same locus.
After removing the potsmash and taking some nice photos of the smash in situ we moved along the north baulk towards the wall locus 1073. Once again the goal was to drop down to the level where the potsmash had been found where the majority of the trench is now level. We took this area down to level. A significant find of this area was a small black bead, which we gave KT4 of L1074. This bead got us a little excited, so we began screening every bucket of dirt for a while. Nothing of note came of the screening, just some small bone fragments which we labeled as a separate KT bag to let everyone know we were screening. Near the end of the day we dropped the ratio of screening down to one bucket screened for every five buckets of dirt, since our screening wasn’t coming up with tons of stuff.
We now have a large area in the trench down to one level. At this level we have some interesting things coming up, but we will talk about these tomorrow, as we are going to spray down the trench and divide the trench into new loci.
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Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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Date | 2002-07-13 |
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
Eleanor Moseman, Chris Moon. (2012) "F-1-2002-07-13 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/b97fd530-d0fb-4c02-7708-80410aa28f13> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2sn05m5v
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