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: 56

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Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/31/2005 
Entry: As usual the frustration of not knowing has subsided as the archaeology again explains itself as we take things apart piece by piece. The frustration was mainly due to the presence of sub wall structures where there 'should' have been nice straight walls... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/10/2005 
Entry: the last diary entry of 2005. The last week has seen the complete removal of construction foundation of deposits/walls associated with building 44, F. 1345 and F. 2062 and the partial removal of there southern and western counterparts F. 2053 and F. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/14/2006 
Entry: 2006 a week into excavation and my first diary entry. So what have we been up to. Emptied the little room at the NW of the building, removing blocking wall 11692/11693 and roomful 11694. However in doing so we saw that the western surviving foundation ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/18/2006 
Entry: I know I am late to write a diary. Sorry. As i read Rody's diary he explained lots of things that we did in last two weeks.This week We started to take out all of the floors in building 56. I took of the plaster on NE platform F2058 which is 12824.It was... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/19/2006 
Entry: Since last entry things have moved along and we are now down to the early construction phases of Building 56. We have removed the earlier oven and hearth sequences. This involved removing floor 12846, lower floor 12852 and walls and mortar construction ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/20/2006 
Entry: The skeletony thing (12863) in the central platform F2057 has tottaly explored but only thing that I can say is its really crushed. Skull is looking to south and the other ones put to eastern side of skull. Infront of the skull there is a arm bone and th... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/25/2006 
Entry: Moving along swiftly from my last dairy entry we have been taking out the last features of building 56 namely the construction make up of the floors and platforms. From platform F. 2055 this was 12872, from platform F. 2057 and bench F. 2056 12874 and fr... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/26/2006 
Entry: Now I'm digigng that burial 2082 below thw N platform. I exposed nearly the whole rigth side of the body except the hands. Tragicly the hands are going straigth below the northern edge of cut. The strategi is to expose all whole body and then maybe we can... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2006 
Entry: After couple of days holidays i started to excavate in the building 56. Basak is already triying to take off the Burial . She was exaited about the feet of skele and the leather thing that they found below the skele. I asked Shahina to give a workman to t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/9/2006 
Entry: Been away in France for a week and been back for a couple of days now. While i was away Candemir had a couple of days off while the skeleton in the N platform F. 2059 took up most of the rest of his time, so nothing much had changed by the time I returne... click here for more... 
 

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