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Today we started to work by taking elevations. Our working focused on Loc 11. Locus 11 is located in the northwest portion of the first step of the trench. It is composed of the fill surrounding a row of rocks. The purpose of working in this locus is to see if these rocks are floating or if there are more courses. Bradley thinks they might be connected with rocks that have appeared in locus 3 (these rocks do not yet have a locus number). Aziz cleaned the rocks and he took this locus down towards the level of locus 3. This revealed another course of stones under the original row of rocks (we will give this a locus number tomorrow). The rocks revealed by this excavation are generally speaking larger than the first row of rocks and I think these rocks are not related to the rocks appearing in locus 3.
We left them and we began work on Loc 16. The reason we have divided locus 16 from locus 11 is because we can see a to see a difference in the soil color. We took 5 cm from this locus and then noticed a small pit. We excavated the pit as locus 15. But the pit did not go deep down and we took out burnt soil from the pit (see the picture). After that, we turned back to Loc 16; we took down Loc 16 same as the bottom of the Loc15. The removal of locus 15 revealed another cobble surface. Hoping to find more cobbles under locus 11 we took locus 11 down to the level of the bottom of locus 16and found that the cobbles do not continue. For this reason we will continue to keep these areas separate. We found another small shallow pit in locus 11. The soil of this pit was burnt and darker than the surrounding soil so we opened new Loc 18 for the 2nd pit. (We took 2-soil samples from these pits) After that, we continued to dig Loc 11, which became loc 19 (Taken photos these 2 pits).
We are changing the loci in both of these areas because (Why?). Locus 11 will be locus 19 and locus 16 will change to locus 17. Tomorrow we would like to continue on Loc 19 then we will clean the loc 17 to see cobble surface exactly. We are sure that the surface (locus 19) does not continue to the south (locus 20) so that we will keep separate.
| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
|---|---|
| Date | 2002-07-15 |
| 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
Tuba Gençler. (2012) "D-7-2002-07-15 (2) from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 7/Locus 3". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/cd75ddc2-ec68-4615-00d8-0aeee1f24e1b> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2v121307
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