Kenantepe 2005        Page 1

Trench: D.10

Date: June 04-06, 2005

Since the excavations in trench D.8 produced substantial mud-brick architecture, which is much later than the Ubaid building recovered in 2002 in trench D.5, and the southernmost room (L.77?) continues into the south baulk, the new trench D.10 is opened today with hope to find the further extension of this room and the building. Thus, trench D.10 is set as 5x3.5m size and the excavations started at the end of the working hours on June 4th.

In June 5th, in the late afternoon, we continued removing the surface soil, which is locus 1.

Today, (June 06), we excavated until the depth of 587.72m. In the N half of the trench, soil color and texture began to change into harder, pinkish with crumbly texture. Because of this, work will begin with a new locus number with the goal to reach to the same Ubaid architecture level as in trench D.8.

In the S half of the trench, there are two large pits (L.4 and L.5). Pit L.4 covers the entire mid-west portion of the trench and it does not have a regular round shape for a pit. Pit L.5 is in the SW corner that occupies about 1m2 space. Both of these pits go into the W section. I will excavate both of them to clean and reach their bottom.

The eastern edge of the trench is much lower than the Ubaid architecture found in trench D.8 because of the natural slope of the mound here. This area has also has been used as the wheelbarrow path this year to remove the dirt from D.8. Thus, this lowermost area of the trench will be touched later in the coming days, but probably, there may not be any distinct cultural deposit preserved.