Daily Journal

Area D

Trench 8

July 10, 2004

Today the main goal was to completely clear the floor, L9. A mud brick structure was revealed after the last cleaning and after the floor is done that needs to be looked at. The wall exists in two steps, which we artificially imposed. It looks possible that L9 touches the wall. I had closed L10 and L11 however Bradley said I needed to reopen them to put the items from the dirt layer that still covers the floor in. I added three new KTs to both L10 and L11 for pottery, lithics, and bone. When we straightened the balks we were able to uncover a 1.3x.4m section of one of the floors above L9. This section is going to be L12 so that it can be sifted. L12 yielded no carbon samples after sifting. I came back to the tepe later this evening to continue working at the floor however I still had not found the edges. I think that part of the problem is that there is still too much soil on top of the floor; just a trowel is not getting through so I need to get one of the guys to come in with a small pick and take some off. We also had a staff change today. Mehmet has Typhoid fever so from now on his brother Ismil will be working. I am also going to be a day behind in data entry because the power is out at the dig house.