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: 17

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Name: Charlie Newman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/13/1999 
Entry: The state of play in Building 6 Space 163 is that it is now Building 17 Space 170. All infill has now been removed and the primary destruction fill of the newly exposed room was gridded into 1.0m squares and sampled systematically to reveal all the new fe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/1/1999 
Entry: Good grief its August, the project is 2/3 over. First diary entry for a while as I haven’t been doing much digging recently, time is passing and downwards progress is yok. Have spent ther past two days helping put up shoring, it has already taken longer a... click here for more... 
 
Name: Charlie Newman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/29/1999 
Entry: Ok... Ok... so I haven’t been keeping up with my diary, but I did qualify as a diver on the west coast and got see a full eclipse up north. So why the lack of entries to Dear Diary?, its because we’ve been working on site every evening and I’m a shagged, ... click here for more... 
 
Name: EJ 
Team:  
Date: 6/30/2015 
Entry: The first couple of days we cleaned our building, checked up on old documentation, placed targets and generated a 3D-model. Basically we are trying to do all pre-documentation steps properly before we excavate. However, when we start it will be a straight... click here for more... 
 
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: JL, FC 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2015 
Entry: Over the last week, we have removed the remaining room fill from the excavation of 1999 which was stuck against the south and east walls in order to get into phase with the earliest known phase (E) of B17, space 170. We have experienced difficulties in co... click here for more... 
 
Name: Erica Camurri 
Team:  
Date: 6/28/2016 
Entry: This entry summarises my reflections on the excavations conducted in building 48 and 17. Excavation in building 48 (already excavated in 2004) was brief and intense: the burial (F3814) of a child in a flexed position without grave items (primary depositi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nada Elias 
Team:  
Date: 6/11/2017 
Entry: Le Samedi 2017-06-10 Un an déjà, les souvenirs jaillissent un par un, une fois les pieds sur les terres de Çatalhöyük. C’est étrange combien un seul lieu peut avoir une aussi grande mémoire. Tout témoigne la magie de l’espace et l’énergie du lieu absorbe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nada Elias 
Team:  
Date: 6/11/2017 
Entry: Le Samedi 2017-06-10 L’homme et la mort au Néolithique en général et dans la maison 17 en particulier : Deux sépultures ont attiré mon attention dans la maison 17. La première concerne un individu adulte enduit par de l’ocre rouge comme pour redonner... click here for more... 
 

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