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: 52

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Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/2005 
Entry: In the last days work continued in space 93 where we emptied by now three of the 4 bins. Bin 2002 contained large quantities of seeds, almonds and other organic material, all excavated by Amy. Because several points of high concentration of seeds were ide... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/23/2005 
Entry: Space 94 story: Fill 11937 was excavated today and it contains the very same material (mud brick with wood impressions) as 10286. The content of 11937 is burnt but much less than that of 10286. I think that when the fire started in the house 52, 119... 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: 7/2/2006 
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: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/2006 
Entry: Yesterday we opened the souhtern area of building 52 with a view to undertaking limited excavation, in order to better understand the layout and development of the building. Cleaning today showed space 254 is in fact two spaces, and the platform recorded ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: The S area of building 52 is now better understood after cleaning and limited excavation. The S extent of building 52 is defined by walls F1486 and 2016 (this could be a single wall but looked like two sepearate walls to me). A small room in the SW corne... click here for more... 
 
Name: LY 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2008 
Entry: We have just been cleaning the area around building 52 
 

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