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: 49

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Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: Building 49 (space 100) was partially excavated in 2003 and 2004. The sandbags backfilling the building were removed last week and the building was cleaned and found to be in a good state of preservation. A white plaster floor (12693) was removed from p... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/6/2006 
Entry: The excavation of building 49 has continued over the past two weeks with the removal of a number of floor deposits and features. A skeleton was removed from grave cut [13608], F1656. The skeleton was that of and older male and was particularly interesting... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 3/12/2006 
Entry: 15 August 2006 So the season is coming to an end for most of us and building 49 is still with us. The last week has been spent removing floors and make up layers. A series of deposits 14416, 14403, 14412, 14411, 14407,14406, 14405 and 14401 represent a... click here for more... 
 
Name: DE 
Team:  
Date: 7/7/2008 
Entry: A week in to the 2008 season and I am ready to start excavation in Building 49 once more, where I am to be working for the rest of the season. Excavation of building 49 was started by a team from Stamford University in 2004, and continued by Jody D. and m... click here for more... 
 
Name: LF 
Team:  
Date: 7/7/2008 
Entry: First days of work in building 49 in the 4040 area. Have spent most of the day familiarising myself with the area and the recording system, as it is my firs year at Catal. Tomorrow the real excavation work will begin and hopefully the floors will behave a... click here for more... 
 
Name: LF 
Team:  
Date: 7/14/2008 
Entry: A few days have passed and I have been taking off floors in the middle of building 49. After the removal of the internal walls we are now in a new phase and have moved into space 335! After the removal of floors (14461( it looks like there is now a nice ... click here for more... 
 
Name: DE 
Team:  
Date: 7/14/2008 
Entry: The past week I have been continuing our excavations in B49 with Colleen and Louise. We have removed an internal partition wall F1654 and F1659, which divided space 100 from a small side room, recorded as space 334. The central area of the internal wall w... click here for more... 
 
Name: CM 
Team:  
Date: 7/14/2008 
Entry: This year I am working in Building 49, Space 100, probably for the duration of the excavation. Building 49 is a small house, with plaster and the traditional features that characterize Catalhoyuk. I started excavating platform f. 1651, located in the no... click here for more... 
 
Name: LF 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2008 
Entry: suddenly realised it has been a while since my last entry so here comes a brief summary of the last week. Have been working in SE area of building 49 removing dirty floors connected with cooking/ activity area near platform F4007 and oven F4003. Psa... click here for more... 
 
Name: DE 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2008 
Entry: Building 49 Space 335 Removing wall plaster (16006) from the remnants of a heavily truncated engaged pillar F4004 and external wall F1655 revealed several fragments of wall paintings. Clearly the engaged pillar and the adjoining north wall was repeate... click here for more... 
 

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