| Entry: | Wake up, dig, breakfast, dig again, lunch, dig again, shower time, rest, lab hours, dinner, one beer, maybe more, sleep, wake up, dig, breakfast.. I guess digging in building 132 with Arek is the best part of this daily routine. Interpretation process with Arek is precious. Ofcourse we say kurva a lot and almost every time we end up saying “this building is really different!”. Even if it looks like the same with other buildings in general; in terms of features like fire installations, bench, platforms, bin, burials; there is more than that. The size of the building and the PİTS!!! I don’t know how many pits we excavated within two months… Post holes, post retrieval pits, shallow pits, some empty installation pits. It’s really hard to walk in the building right now. One of the most important questions about this building is if it’s a communal building or not. Perhaps the floors in the buildings are important to understand the functional independence of houses. So Arek wanted to try grid system to take samples from floor layers on southern part of the space 531 and it worked out pretty good so far. So we will try to take more samples and hope for interesting results. Devil is in the details right! So the question is how we can decide if this building is communal or not? It seems that the size of this building is our main proof since S.531 is just the main room of the building. Secondly, fire installations. Why they needed so many fire installations? In the Southern part of the space 531 we excavated three ovens, one hearth with six sequences of use (F.7871). Last week Arek found another fire installation within the southern platform and one fire spot on North. Also the pits in the building are really interesting. It seems like they wanted to take out everything like posts, installations but strangely they left the plastered head 21666.X1 on the SW corner of the house like a guard. I guess I should say something about one of our pits. Pit F.7740 which is in the center of the S.531. First we thought we had a burial but then there was nothing inside other than ash and at the end thanks to specialists we learned that there were lots of different materials from different burning events and activities. Remains were mixed and very well preserved. There were lots of abandoned phytholiths. One lump of rock, super melted over 900 degrees. Also the results from Ceren were pointing multiple seasons like spring, late summer, autumn and winter. So I was thinking about the function of this pit and about the fire installations in the building lately. I guess this pit should be discussed more in another diary entry. So I should get back to the main issue. What would suggest that B.132 was a communal building?? Of course size matters! |
