Weekly Summary
Area D
Trench 6
06/09/2007-06/14/2007.
Our primary goal this week was to bring the trench down to the top of the Ubaid
structure in the baulk in D8, nearly another meter. In doing this we discovered two walls
in the center of the trench, Locus 117 emerging out of the western baulk and Locus 131
running through the center of the trench. The majority of the week was spent attempting
to define these to walls and in finding associated architecture that might connect them. In
our fill Locus 141, we discovered a floor surface (Locus 146), which contained a basket
fetus burial (Locus 145). In the NW corner we uncovered a burned surface (Locus 129),
which was surrounded by what appeared to be highly weathered bricks. The surface was
roughly ovular suggesting that it may have been an oven. Below surface Locus 129, we
discovered a large lithic concentration containing two hammerstones (locus 147 KT 2 and
KT 3), a large lithic core and a lithic blank (locus 147 KT 7) and numerous other items of
lithic production debris and ceramics. Below this surface was another roughly ovular
burnt surface (locus 152). In the fill in Locus 154 we discovered another fetus burial
under a pot that was left to be completed next week.