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Weekly Trench Summary

Area D

Trench 5

Week Ending July 28, 2002

Work this week focused on clearing up our understanding of the main contexts being considered part of the Ubaid structure context, with the caveat that all this needed to be done before we could do a much-needed baulk reduction to help minimized the threat of serious injury or death resulting from baulk collapse, especially from the 4m west baulk.

The basic conclusions from the work this week is that the S mudbrick structure is positively linked to the grain surface and all the collapse atop the grain surface is contemporary and oven L5111 is probably contemporary, though the latter assumption still requires further testing.

Also done this week was extensive work on a later, probably 2nd-millenium pit which looks to cut the Ubaid contexts in the WNW portion of the trench. If such can be said, it is an excellent pit, with a plaster lining, tons of pottery, some good small finds and large bones with gnawing damage. It appears near the end of the week that we were finally approaching the end of this very deep pit.

Loci sieved this week were: L5099, L5100, L5103, L5108 and L5098.

Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Journal Type Season
Date 2002-08-21
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

JW. (2012) "D-5-2002-08-021-Season from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 5". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/f274e8e2-bbd0-4a85-fa24-a296df02eb77> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2g44p708

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