Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Year	2002.0
Trench Length (m)	9.0
Trench Width (m)	1.0
Trench Description	Trench F15 is a 1 by 9 meter unit located 20 meters west of trench F13. The purpose of this trench was to search for architecture dating to the Early Bronze Age I at Kenan Tepe. The main find in this trench is part of a large cobble surface that was also identified in several other trenches.
Tentative Dating	Early Bronze Age I
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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.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. and L. S. Dodd, with Contributions from A. Creekmore, R. Paine, E. Moseman and M. Marley 2011 Yukarı Dicle Arkeolojik Araştırma Projesi (UTARP): 2002 Yılı Kenan Tepe Kazilarina Genal Bakış (The Upper Tigris Archaeological Reseach Project [UTARP]: An Overview of the 2002 Excavations at Kenan Tepe). In Ilısu ve Karkamış Baraj Gölleri Altında Kalacak Arkoelojiik ve Kültür Varlıklarını Kurtarma Projesi 2002 Yılı Çalişmaları (Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilısu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs Activities in 2002), edited by N. Tuna and O. Doonan, pp. 703-756. Ankara: Middle East Technical University. 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., 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.