The Excavation Diary

The excavation diaries are a daily log kept by the excavators on site during each season. They record the day to day activity of the team and their observations on their work.
 
Displaying Diary Entries for Building: 10

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Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/8/1997 
Entry: Many new things since my last entry. Here is a quick update: In the new trench east of Building 10, we have been primarily dealing with the pits, which were all cleaned to their bottoms (or assumed bottoms). Nothing particularly noteworthy, except perhaps... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ian Hodder 
Team: Project Director 
Date: 8/31/1996 
Entry: The Greeks arrived yesterday and today started to show them around and explain the system. They have some very interesting differences of approach. For example, they like to have a 'layer' which is a group of units - something we would define in phasing t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/8/1996 
Entry: An exciting day in the trench. Things seem to clear up a bit, and we are gradually getting a better hold of the bureaucracy of the dig. We are struggling to find the first floor of Building 10 and we are working through disturbed deposits around the oven... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/11/1996 
Entry: A very cold Monday night, and in Tuesday morning I was not feeling very well. I had to leave most of the work to Tania, Yiannis and Nikos. Good progress was made. They tried to finish the NW area of the trench where the collapsed plaster had been found on... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/14/1996 
Entry: A new week after an excellent Friday in Konya. We started taking out the floors cleared the previous week. The aim here is to relate the patches of clay plaster in the centre of the trench with the floors which we had previously uncovered in its western p... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/21/1996 
Entry: We are almost at the end of this season and work in Building 10 has reached a good point. The architecture of the house has been cleared up and the overall plan is now complete. Along the Eastern wall there is a low bench and a platform, which goes into t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 8/24/1997 
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 e... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gudmundur Jonsson 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/19/2003 
Entry: Cleaning commenced in the south shelter on the 16th of July 2003. The team consisted of Gudmundur Jonsson (Jamie) - Pia Anderson - Vahit and 2 workers. First of all the various features in the summit area were emptied of sacks and plastic sheeting. Th... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gudmundur Jonsson 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/23/2003 
Entry: Hello again !! Excavation commenced in the south shelter yesterday. It has been decided that the area is to be called the "south summit" - henceforth any forms and logging will use this identifier. There has been a change to the excavation team -... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gudmundur Jonsson 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/28/2003 
Entry: We had quite an eventful day yesterday. Towards the end of the day Emma was removing the bricks from the oven (F111) and was stung by a scorpion in the process !! She was taken to the hospital in Konya and treated. I am glad to say that it was nothing ... click here for more... 
 

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