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: 160

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Name: Erik Johansson 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: We have had a very productive couple of days in B17. The south walls of B24 and B6 are coming down and at the foundation of F.485 we came across a buchrania that the conservation team are solidifying in order for us to continue dismantling the wall. S... click here for more... 
 
Name: Erik Johansson 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2015 
Entry: Stratigraphical introduction to the area including B43, B160, B24, B6, B17, South shelter - Mellaarts Shrine 8 and 10 sequence. Last year (2014) the last features of B43 was excavated (except for some foundation burials). Due to the uncovering of two cra... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 6/30/2015 
Entry: Finally I came in Çatalhöyük for my 8th excavation compaign on Sunday. It made me so excited and a little bit nervous. Because after every excavation season i feel so sad and wait for next season. I got 8th season in Çatal and it is an amazing part ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 7/6/2015 
Entry: The another excited day were started. We just focused on floors of building. Day by day we can excavate more and more infill and going deeper. But when we were looking our building end of excavation day, it was still same for infill. Anyway we are tr... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 7/11/2015 
Entry: Another excited day was started. We have been still excavating to understand of B.160s importance. Every day we remove lost of tons soils from building. Today we have exposed some strange feature on the north wall. Last week we have interpreted that f... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 7/12/2015 
Entry: We are going deeper day by day. Today we focused on building infill to reach floors. But it is really hard to excavate infill. Especially some part of infill is so compact. Anyway we have a hard working archaeologist, we will achieve it with them. Today... 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: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 5/14/2016 
Entry: After cleaning, prepearing to site to excavate and lots of meeting ,we could start excavate at Çatalhöyük. The other things also are part of excavation process but i think more exciting thing is of course touching to layers to understanding to Çatalians l... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 5/27/2016 
Entry: 27.05.16 After couple of weeks finally we have touch the South Wall of B.118. When we were removing to infill U.22354, we could see to clearly to wall. Maybe Mellaart could be happy if he could see to that wall with all of feature in B.118. Anyway our ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 6/1/2016 
Entry: Finally we have reached to completely interior building features. After hardworking days, we have started to work tiny layer to layer. So removed to U.22300 and U.22324, we can see to some destroyed platforms, many pits, a nice oven, hearth, some s... click here for more... 
 

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