Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Year	2000.0 2001.0
Trench Length (m)	4.0
Trench Width (m)	4.0
Trench Description	Trench F4 is located on the steep slopes of Kenan Tepe’s lower town. Because if its location the trench was not fit into the north-south grid, but instead was laid out according to site topography. Trench F4 was an important trench because it allowed us to define the nature and chronology of occupation in Kenan Tepe’s lower town within the first two seasons of excavation. The trench is characterized by a large beehive shaped Late Chalcolithic oven. Most of the corpus of faunal material from this trench was analyzed early in the history of the project and thus this trench was important for our initial interpretation of the fauna of the Early Bronze Age and Late Chalcolithic period at Kenan Tepe.
Tentative Dating	Early Bronze Age I 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. Dodd, L. S., B. J. Parker, A. Creekmore, and E. Healey 2005 The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): Excavations at Kenan Tepe in 2003. In 26. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Pp. 357-370. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Anıtlar ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü. Parker, B. J., and L. S. Dodd 2005 The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): A Preliminary Report from the 2002 Field Season. Anatolica 31:69-110. 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., 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. 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., A. Creekmore, L. S. Dodd, E. Moseman, M. Abraham, and J. Schnereger 2002 The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP): Year 2000 Excavations at Kenan Tepe. In 23. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, pp. 435-444. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Millî Kütüphane Başımevi.