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: 16

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/4/1999 
Entry: Over the last three and a half days I have been excavating the ‘island’ of archaeology let by Mellaart in the south-east corner of his shrine 8 level VIII - building 16 space 164 in new money. There was basically a complete sequence for this corner betwee... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/8/1999 
Entry: Since getting out of the midden and taking down the wall ( 299 ) on the south side of space 115 I have been working with Jez in space 164, to start with carting zembils of spoil as the Mellaart backfill came out of this space, and then, once we had got do... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Have begun seriously tackling the south-eastern island of archaeology in building 18, started on this one as it is the largest and most complex looking. Have basically removed some dirty rake-out / trample deposits (4530) and (4533) with a cluster of clay... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/17/1999 
Entry: Diary up to 17th May1999 01.05.99 Saturday Today is my first working day at Çatal for 1999. I and Basak started to do the section drawing Rof North facing wall 79 and wall 406 (which cuts it) of Space 117 Building 2. Graphics no. 99/141. 02.05.99... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 6/9/1999 
Entry: Shahina 7th June Too much has happened since I last wrote a diary, too much to recap on so I’m just going to jot down a few things. I can only cover the archaeology in general terms as I’m not often found with a trowel in my hand on site and I’ve not... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/17/1999 
Entry: End of week and I feel really drained. I have managed to get ridof the deposits in space 172 relatively quickly but have amassed a major paperwork backlog to deal with. The main thing that I sorted out was the bin sequence at the western end. Bin 514 is c... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/1999 
Entry: End of another week and only one more to go until the half way point of the season. The start of this week definitely dragged and we didn’t seem to be making any progress but today most of the canvas for the shelter went up and I started digging material ... click here for more... 
 

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