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: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/5/2004 
Entry: diary entry 1 this is a few days overdue, but i will try and include as much as i can remember... My first day digging at Çatalhöyük was for me very much reminding myself about how to do archaeology! This went fairly smoothly, i removed a layer or possib... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/7/2004 
Entry: Rather humid day under the shelter. What stated as a bit of a flap ended fine as we are about the shift some of the platforms or at least eat into them. It appears that what was considerd to be the the east wall and part of the south and north walls of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/7/2004 
Entry: Most humid day under the shelter so far but at least the annoying black midgy things weren't so annoying today. Shahina came up this morning and she'd obviously been mentally chewing over our walls since she pointed out that we'd got walls sitting on top ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/10/2004 
Entry: Last Thursday I helped Richard take off some floor layers, nothing very exciting to report there. Next i moved to excavate some post holes butting up to what now appears to be a hearth (cut and fill numbers 10633, 10634, 10635). They proved to be 2 shallo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/11/2004 
Entry: diary entry 3 Today I have been excavating areas of the rubbish pit beside the hearth. There are up to 5 pots in there, 2 grind stones, a stone with red ochre on it, lots and lots of bones, some mortar/plaster/burnt material spill seemingly from the hear... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/17/2004 
Entry: diary entry 4 To catch up with developments in the last few days, I removed the final pot (10675) from the rubbish mound, and have finished plans in scales 1:20 and in 1:10. One pot was left in situe as it seems to belong to a lower layer with floors r... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Diary entry 5 In the last few days, I have been working on platform F1312, taking down the layers and working out the relationships with the surrounding features. The area around the rubbish pit (F.1325) has become a little clearer, but some of the lay... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/2004 
Entry: Realised towards the end of the windy day last week when 'Ancient Clues' was being filmed in our house (the 14th I think) that I was completely fed up with digging endless floors and floor make-up layers. However the last couple of days a welcome respite ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Took off a plaster surface (11243) which was cut by removal pit 11239, post or stake-hole 11248 and the grave or burial removal cut 11217. Then took off a plaster make-up (11251) which was directly over the fill (11254) of an apparent grave cut. I've star... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/21/2004 
Entry: diary entry 6 Yesterday I spent time taking off layers of wall plaster, and excavating another hard lump of material beside the probable ladder setting (11271). There are many of these which have come off now, it really seems that this area was used fo... click here for more... 
 

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