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: 132

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Name: Robert Bergman Carter 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2015 
Entry: My first season of six weeks here at Catal is coming to an end and there is still plenty to do. Excavation in Building 131, where I ended up after finishing the documentation of Building 5, ended yesterday. Today, Allison and I cleaned out the extremely c... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 5/12/2016 
Entry: This is my first diary entry for the final excavation season at Catalhoyuk. Surprisingly, it makes me quite emotional to think that I wont be back to excavate here again, something that has been – on and off - a part of my entire adult life. What more is... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek K. 
Team:  
Date: 5/16/2016 
Entry: Today I have accomplished eventually exploration of post-retrieval pit F.7872 recorded in SE part of B.132. I must admit it was a grand struggle for me to excavate complex deposit (U.31553) and identify differences between the infill and surrounding sedim... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 5/29/2016 
Entry: We’ve been excavating on site for almost four weeks. Work seems to be progressing well - the South Area is actually visibly different with the removal of the walls that belong to Mellaart’s Shrine 31 (Level IX according to him), the midden above B.118 an... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 6/23/2016 
Entry: Phasing the 4040 buildings has always been a bit of a nightmare for Shahina. Too much lateral excavation and too little in depth excavation done in an area where we were presumed to document a happy neighborhood ended up showing us that in fact the mound... click here for more... 
 
Name: arek k. 
Team:  
Date: 7/2/2016 
Entry: B.132 is obviously huge edifice whose extent easily could astonish visitor. If you stand on the western edge of the research area facing towards the East below you can see the wide surface of undulated floors and UBIQUITOUS HOLES that dominate within the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Duygu E. 
Team:  
Date: 7/4/2016 
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 wi... click here for more... 
 
Name: arek k. 
Team:  
Date: 7/10/2016 
Entry: Recently prepared matrix for B.132 together with revealing one of the feature (F.7747) brought interesting insights into a possible pattern that concerns construction and remodeling phase of fire installations excavated already within Sp.531. I suppose th... click here for more... 
 
Name: arek 
Team:  
Date: 6/2/2017 
Entry: The value of the talk at Catal’ • Few days ago I had opportunity to have a nice talk with Sean who hosted before Scott in the lithic-lab. Scot was interested in seeing the obsidian blades (U.23034) that were found within the cache (F. 8359) in B.131 (Sp.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Duygu E. 
Team:  
Date: 6/3/2017 
Entry: Last week’s aim was getting rid of the features and revealing the packing all over S.531. So first thing to remove was the long lived bench F.7879. While I was excavating the make-up of the bench U.32740, unexpectedly I revealed an earlier phase of th... click here for more... 
 

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