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: 63

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Name: Fusun Ertug 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/8/2006 
Entry: A new week starts after a day off. The South area is getting more interesting every day with new spaces, and new features. Today’s work concentrated on four units, U11863, U12425, U12426 and U12423. The burnt fill in the space which contains bins and the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Fusun Ertug 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/9/2006 
Entry: We have continued with the same team in the same area, however we have now a building number: B63. This means that our separate spaces combined, and became a building. Ian Hodder and Shahina visited us twice today, as Ian arrived this morning, and would l... click here for more... 
 
Name: Fusun Ertug 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/10/2006 
Entry: We have taken some working pictures of Building 63 before we have started to work at 7:00 am. The bin that has been partly emptied last year is cleaned in unit 12429, and the content send to flotation. Burnt barley was concentrated at one corner. The scra... click here for more... 
 
Name: Günes Duru 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/11/2006 
Entry: Heval ve Ece 63 nolu binanin batisinda calisiyorlar, henuz net bir sey yok. Profilde taban- duvar karisimi bir sey goruyoruz, anlasilmasi icin bir sure daha derinlesilmesi gerekiyor. George, bu yilin ilk haftasinda siyirma yaptigimiz, gecen yildan bilinen... click here for more... 
 
Name: Günes Duru 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/15/2006 
Entry: Turhan and Mihriban works on south corner of the area, there are some walls appeared, but not clear yet; I help time to time, because I wonder what we will see. I can not say where we are in the Catalhoyuk stratigraphy but pottery sherds say “we belong to... click here for more... 
 
Name: Günes Duru 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/16/2006 
Entry: Mihriban and Turhan worked on south corner of the IST AREA. Some walls appear and there are many big bones fill of the U12454. One of the walls very well plastered but we do not sure yet how will wall continued. We talked about “why we do not work in much... click here for more... 
 
Name: Günes Duru 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/24/2006 
Entry: I think we have one week more days for this year. After the red painted platform which was appear under the 1993 (exist platform) we all wonder the meaning/function of red painting? Mihriban works in the S284 and she wants to clean horn corn, Turhan wo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Günes Duru 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/25/2006 
Entry: Today we continued to dig Space 301, there are still big bones in the room fill. George scrape all the U12482 (probable midden pit) and nearest area U12487 and we understand all area show similarities with this layer. He decided to change unit and new uni... click here for more... 
 
Name: Günes Duru 
Team: IST 
Date: 7/26/2006 
Entry: Tell me diary at once! Who is writing the best? Who is more scientific, who is more poetic, who is politic, who is keeping the rules more.. George works in 12496 and 13907, our aim is to find the missing wall of south wall of the Building 63. Pits, late ... click here for more... 
 
Name: MO 
Team:  
Date: 7/14/2008 
Entry: Removal of upper floor of Building 63. Excavating in Sp. 283, the burnt room. Cleaning and following the red painted plaster on the northern face of platform 1993. The plan of the features in the building (63) and their stratigraphical positio... click here for more... 
 

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