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: 59

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Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/14/2006 
Entry: Arrived on site on the evening of Suday 4th of June. The first day was spent clearing the pottery lab of stored equipment and helping ready the dig house. The next couple of days were spent cleaning up the South area, under the main shelter, ready for exc... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/17/2006 
Entry: First diary entry of the season. We have been taking down the room fill (12902) in space 276. This revealed a room with a unusual layou with bins along the north side of the western wall and dirty floors in the north part of the space. The space is conne... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/18/2006 
Entry: Arived on site 04/06/2006 Spent the first week cleaning the South area and removing sand bags from the west strip of the 4040 area and cleaning the loose to reveal the late phase Neolithic structures (phases five or six) these had all been identified and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/19/2006 
Entry: The last couple of days we have been cleaning out the rest of the building fill in space 276, recorded, doing the endless feature sheets for a cleared out space and excavating the bins. The bins F.2202 was a group of three attached to the western wall of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: A Neolithic infant burial (F2227) has been excavated from the northern area of space 278, under platform F2225. The individual was approximately six months old and was in a crouched position. The burial did not contain any grave goods. Directly to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Simon McCann 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/29/2006 
Entry: Still here! Myself and Dave are here to dig B60 and 59 which at the end of the season revealed a very nice painted wall. The new shelter foundation for the 4040 area would go right through this, so our aim is to assess the size and lifespan of this buil... click here for more... 
 
Name: Julie Cassidy 
Team: Finds 
Date: 9/6/2006 
Entry: Been here almost exactly 3 months now...and still no real idea of when we'll be going home, except that our visa's run out at the end of September. Basak left a couple of days ago, as did karen, who were just staying back to finsh off their research. Sha... click here for more... 
 
Name: Simon McCann 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/9/2006 
Entry: Have made a start on the post retrieval pits, last week and this week and they aren't as easy as we first thought. Pos lulled into sense that stripy floor layers would guide us but of course they don’t go all the way to the base! Frustrating day today re... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/2007 
Entry: First entry 2007 Arived on site the morning of the 16/06/07, helped set up the seminar room and dug out the records for building 59 and 60, to get up to speed on where the excavations finished 2006, as Simon and Dave continued excavation after I left... click here for more... 
 
Name: James Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/30/2007 
Entry: So, apologies for not having written an entry sooner. I have been unsure what to write about, we have been here a couple of weeks but so far we have been moving around a lot and haven't felt too settled. We spent the first week or so un-backfilling Mik... click here for more... 
 

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