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Trench D6 Daily Journal      August 07, 2002

Today we cleared the fill L36 under surface L17, which continued for about 7cm, and contained few arifacts. Under this we found a new surface just to the South of L20 furnace. This new surface (L37) consists of lots of nice pottery and less stones, and appears far less dense than L17. We also removed the rock line/wall L33 without any surprises.

In the furnace complex we continued to push down in L29, and came acoss a very complex orange mud brick collapse which we articulated before removing. Under this we found a layer of grainy pebbly material in the South half (in front of L24, 25, 26) and a area of whiteish material in the center, and then more orange to the North. We photoed each stage of excavation.

We began removal and refinement of the structure L6, first clearing a buffer we had left on it’s West face. The excavation here was estimated, as the change in materials became less certain the deeper we went. At the end we had a continuous slope down to the current "floor" level of an extremely similar nature to the walls of L14 and L5. On the other side (and top) we removed some of the floating mudbricks and set to removing the fill between others. It seems there is a general tendency for there to be slumping in these furnaces, in which the structural material acts in a plastic manner, bending with gravity. The material between objects is extremely strong and bonds the bricks and itself tightly, seems to be able to act in a plastic manner under certain conditions, and when excavated appears to be made of a yellow clayish material which breaks in clumps or can be shaved. Very curious stuff.

Lastly of note, a mouse has moved into L29, we believe he may be the prior tenant evicted by our operations, and we welcome him back, although he removed about a 2 liter soil sample in making his/her burrow last night.

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Date 2002-08-07
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.
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Suggested Citation

Drew McGaraghan. (2012) "D-6-2002-08-07 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 6/Locus 4". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/b9d6df08-3a38-4e32-17e7-b051dc2a72cd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2pg1p48z

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