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: 51

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Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/2005 
Entry: Its been couple of days since the last diary entry. In the meantime we finished excavating building 51, space 98 to its final phase if use/ Apart from conservation, the building wont be touched again this year. We started taking out the room fill of a c... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/5/2005 
Entry: The excavation of Building 52 was finished today. We got the building down to the level is going to stay for now (and forever probably) and also our understanding of the stratigraphic relationships in the area is a lot better now. We seem to agree that... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/29/2006 
Entry: Salve! Last few days we started removing the upper layers of midded, secretly hoping that the walls of space 280 will be completely exposed and the midden plus infill within will be contained so that we can empty the room. But midden is midden and the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/1/2006 
Entry: I started excavating B51 today. I emptied the niche 1477 in the east wall. It contained two fills 12659 and 12660. The second one was deposited on the bottom of the niche only at the exterior. It could have had a retaining role. I also emptied the post r... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/2/2006 
Entry: I started removing the plaster 12667 on the floor of B51 today. It seems that it's the only plaster layer in the house with one brown clay make up layer set on top of the room fill of B52 in some areas and directly on top of floors of B52 in other areas. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2006 
Entry: Today our understanding of B51 changed dramaticly. It is clear now that the east, the north and half of the west wall of B51 are walls of B52 reused in 51. So are the platforms. B51 was constructed by removing the burnt house fill of 52 and constructing... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/4/2006 
Entry: We removed the double basin F. 1584 and the pedestal F. 1581 from B51 today. They were proably made with the same clay that the hearth F. 1573 and the make up layer 12670 were made of. The clay wall of the double basin is 12672 and the clay make up of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rémi Hadad 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2015 
Entry: This season of excavation reached an older phase of B52 which corresponds to a period of intense remodeling of the building. The western wall was rebuilt on a slightly different path (2140 to 2183) and a new space was thus created (576 become 92/91). Th... click here for more... 
 

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