| Entry: | Arrived in Catal Hoyuk on August, 21st. Only three of us, Yiannis Imamidis, Evangelia Kiriatzi and myself. The rest of the team are waiting for the permits back in Thessaloniki. Work started in Summit on the 23rd. A new trench 4 x 9 m was opened to the east of the trench of 1996. The aims were a. to investigate the east side of Building 10 b. to understand better Wall 102 (east) the width of which (over 1m) is unusual. We call this trench Summit 2. The 1996 trench will be referred as Summit 1. The whole of the Summit now is 10 (E-W) x 9 (N-S). Work started on both trenches.
In Summit 2, 4 workmen assumed the task of digging, with good results. Only the top layer was removed to a varying depth. It revealed an area of mixed deposits possible a midden. On the west side of the trench, however, the top of wall 102 is now clearly visible. On its North edge (a strip of 1 m wide was left unexcavated here), appeared part of a round pit, similar to F100. In Summit 1 work started in the Northern part which was not excavated to the same depth in 1996. We dug through a mixed deposit ("Layer 4" in 1996) which had been found overlaying Floor 116. Similar features, fallen pieces of plaster with traces of red paint and the connection to a later platform F118 which replaced F120, were observed. Under Layer 4 the same Floor 116 was revealed. Surprisingly, it seems related to an earlier phase of Wall 113, which closes Building 10 to the North. This had not been observed in the other walls forming Building 10. So this earlier phase remains for the time being unrelated to the rest of the walls.Entered By: Kostas Kotsakis |
