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: 64

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Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/9/2006 
Entry: Shahina and Ian around this morning. Some scepticism about our lime burning idea but I think we persuaded Shahina. Ian said that there is no lime burning in Level V, but maybe it is some sort of plaster processing, and also that the light coloured layer s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/10/2006 
Entry: We have been working in Building 64 which is truncated by the pitting. A layer of mudbrick collapse was taken off (13112) and this overlay (13116) and (13117) in spaces 288 and 287 respectively. These layers are more like the typical room fill deposits. T... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/2006 
Entry: We have continued excavating building 64 removing the room fills. Between the layers of room fill in Space 287 was a burial (f.2231/units 13119-13121) containing the disarticulated bones of limbs that must have still been fleshy when they went in since th... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/23/2006 
Entry: We have been continiuing in building 64 removing the room infill (13118). Nothing much to write about really (but I havent done a dairy in a while). A pair of sheep horncores were found on the surface of the southern platform in Space 287 and a basket wa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/25/2006 
Entry: Work has been progressing better the last couple of days as we have been removing room fill (13168) in space 286 and a layer of wall demolition material (13160) to the south of space 286. The removal of this layer revealled that there was a southern room... click here for more... 
 

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