Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Trench Length (m)	2.0
Trench Width (m)	2.0
Year	2000
Description	Trench D3 is a 2 by 2 meter sounding. The purpose of this trench was to expand our exposure to the Middle Bronze Age while simultaneously testing to see if opening a full sized trench in this area was a viable option. This sounding is characterized by part of a large cobbled street that was later exposed when this trench was expanded into a 5 by 10 meter unit (trench D4). The same cobble street was also exposed in trench D7 and D6.
Tentative Dating	Middle Bronze Age
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.