Area D Trench 4

July 8, 2002

Our day started by taking the elevation of the small find from yesterday, from locus 4061. That has the KT number as 6, and its elevation is 590.291. Then we opened two new locias; these are L4063 and L4064. L4063 is the west side of the old pit that was used to be called as L4028 last year. I wanted to get guide for myself by cutting 15cm from the pit (from the east side of it). We are taking soil samples from L4061 to make microanalysis. Also we started to excavate L4060.

The south west corner of L4061 was very soft in texture and its composition was not so mixed, but all the bones from this locus were found in the south west corner, the KT number for them is 8, an the elevation is 590.221. By the way I have not excavated L4064 now, because L4061 and L4063 took us a lot of time to clean and to articulate. The excavating process of L4061was very slow, our direction was from the north to south. This process is being done two times; during our first process we went 5cm deep and then we went 8cm deep, and nothing has changed the texture remained the same. So, we decided to excavate 2cm more in depth. But we began to use the small picks. The whole locus turned out to be L4065. L4061 was a fill, but when we examine the locus we can observe that it is a surface. The most amazing thing here is that there are nicely decorated potsherds that were handled, we can say that this surface is nice example of the 2nd millennium B.C., we have not seen potsherds like these ones before.

Today we were not able to finish the articulating process L4065 (it will be opened tomorrow), because we had to close today, so I have taken some photos of the potsherds (very close zoom ones), and my aim for tomorrow is to articulate L4065 completely and then excavate L4064.

  P.S.: I have taken soil samples for micro- analysis . The first 10lt. Is from L4061’s south west corner, and the second 10lt. Is from the whole locus 4061, except for the south west corner of the locus.