Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Year	2000.0 2001.0 2005.0
Trench Length (m)	5.0
Trench Width (m)	5.0
Trench Description	Trench F2 is a 5 by 5 meter trench that was originally opened in 2000. Further excavations took place in this trench in 2002 and then again in 2005. The upper most levels contained a well preserved tandır style oven attached to a surface dated through ceramics to the Early Bronze Age. Further excavations revealed parts of two (probably domestic) structures dating to the Late Chalcolithic period.
Tentative Dating	Early Bronze Age Late Chalcolithic
Has note	A trench is the projection of a 2D square or rectangle onto some small portion of an Area. This projection is usually excavated vertically, leaving a one-half meter space between the vertically excavated space and the edge of the trench so that a standing section, or baulk, is left as a record of the trench stratigraphy. Generally speaking, trenches fit into the north-south grid established on the site. The exception is where the site topography does not allow a trench to be oriented to the cardinal points. Trench corners were located using a total station and secured with cement. The location of all excavated material within a trench was measured relative to the actual (cemented) corners of the trench. Various sized trenches were excavated at Kenan Tepe including 1 x 1 and 2 x 2 meter soundings and 3 x 5, 5 x 5, 5 x 10 and 10 x 10 meter trenches. One or two students were typically placed in control of a trench as "trench supervisors." Trenches also typically had between 1 and 4 local laborers. Area supervisors oversaw trenches in each area. Trench supervisors were responsible for recording the excavation and for directing the local laborers. This included keeping a daily journal that recorded observations and activities in each trench, drawing daily plans showing the location of excavated contexts, taking photographs and issuing loci and finds bag numbers. Area supervisors oversaw excavation and sampling strategies and guided trench supervisors in excavation procedures and interpretation. References for this Trench Creekmore, A. 2007 The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): A Summary and Synthesis of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Remains from the First Three Seasons at Kenan Tepe. Anatolica 33:75-128. Foster, C. P. 2009 Household Archaeology and the Uruk Phenomenon: A Case Study from Kenan Tepe, Turkey. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. Parker, B. J. 2007 Yukarı Dicle Arkeolojik Araştirma Projesi (UTARP): 2005 Yili Kenan Tepe Arazi Çalışması Raporu. In 28. Kazi Sonuçları Toplantısı, edited by in B. Koral and H. Dönmez, pp. 323-340. Ankara: Kultur ve Turizm Bakanlığı Dosimm Başimevi. Parker, B. J., and L. S. Dodd 2004 The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): A Preliminary Report from the 2002 Excavations at Kenan Tepe. In 25. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, pp. 471-482. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Anıtlar ve Müzeler Genal Müdürlüğü. Parker, B. J., A. Creekmore, L. S. Dodd, R. Paine, C. Meegan, E. Moseman, M. Abraham, and P. Cobb 2003 The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): A Preliminary Report from the 2001 Field Season. Anatolica 29:103-174. Parker, B. J., C. P. Foster, J. Henecke, M. Hopwood, D. Hopwood, A. Creekmore, A. Demirergi, and M. Eppihimer 2008 A Preliminary Report from the 2005 and 2006 Field Seasons at Kenan Tepe. Anatolica 34:103-176. Parker, B. J. 2011 Bread Ovens, Social Networks and Gendered Space: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Tandır Ovens in Southeastern Anatolia. American Antiquity 76(4):603-627. Parker, B. J., and M. B. Uzel 2007 The Tradition of Tandır Cooking in Southeastern Anatolia: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. In Ethnoarchaeological Investigations in Rural Anatolia Vol. 4, edited by T. Takaoğlu, pp.7-43. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları.