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.
 
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Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/31/1997 
Entry: The season began much as we left off last year, taking space 117 in building 2 down in large spits or units ranging between 1000 and 2000 litres. We were aware that discrete dumps were perhaps being missed within the overall dumping process backfilling t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/4/1997 
Entry: I’d spent practically the whole of last Friday catching up on all my diary entries, Craig had entered one during the week and by yesterday all was lost. Anya doesn’t understand what happened and we can only imagine that they were accidently wiped off by ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/4/1997 
Entry: I feel I must split these diary entries as they’re far too long. This section will recap on the strstigraphical history of the spaces under excavation and the story so far. I can’t actually remember what I wrote when because of the entries that were lost ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/15/1997 
Entry: Its been too long since I last entered my diary and too much has happened to recap on specifics so I might just ramble on for a bit. I have to say losing some diary entries was demoralising specially as time is so tight. The power problem has been a real... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/29/1997 
Entry: Shahina: Last Diary 29th Sept. Trenches are backfilled, most of the house has been packed and only the very last of the team are here. As usual the close up has been hectic, however many days we allow at the end of the project there never seems to be ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/20/1997 
Entry: As I'm so far behind I've taken some sound advice which is to enter daily events and try to catch up in my own time as and when appropraite. So, today was quite eventful. Firstly, Ian has returned after a weeks absence, and 'though there were no major ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/10/1997 
Entry: Big day today. Our first day in the field excavating under our gorgeous tent - the Goddess Pavilion. Hot sunny day. Big storm in the evening, so we have to postpone the Goddess Pavilion opening. RET, Mira, Kathy, Sonya, Miriam, Anne-Marie, Dusan, Ayse:... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/1998 
Entry: Craig 22_7_98 Work continues to go fairly well. The walls of Building 1 are practically gone with only a couple of bricks remaining. The walls of the earlier building are showing up in most places and seem to be in fairly good condition, some are quite... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/18/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor 18/04/1999 This morning , I began excavating a further , approx. 0.10m. spit , within midden deposit 4121 , in the SE. corner of Space 115. We’ve noted over the past week , that this area has produced a slightly higher percentage of bone , in... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 4/17/1999 
Entry: SHAHINA 17/4/99 We’ve just completed our first full week of excavation of the 6 month season with all personnel but as I’ve been here since the 30th March I thought I would recap on events so far and then discuss the excavation area and strategy. Kh... click here for more... 
 

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