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: 65

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Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/15/2006 
Entry: Decent day in the south shelter, not too hot and the arrival of Heather has helped, along with Taruk? to help us shift the soil. Candimer and myself have been removing the last vestiges of building 56 which appears to have a room previously unnoticed to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: At last our building changes shape, although it pretty much occupies the same space apart from an extra platform in the south west. The structure looks pretty good in that like building 56, building 65 appears pristine with sharp edges to the features an... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/26/2007 
Entry: Have been on site almost a week and still have yet to settle into an area. The first few days were spent in the South shelter, first cleaning up and playing the role of general 'dogsbody,' and then working in building 65 excavating burial F2703, cut into ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Eleri Cousins 
Team: Stanford 
Date: 7/14/2007 
Entry: Today was my first day back on site after a week in the labs. Kristen and I spent the day planning and removing various layers from the floor of building 65 (the whole building is started to be taken down now). Everything was really fragmentary and hard... click here for more... 
 
Name: Charlie Newman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/16/2007 
Entry: This last week has been very productive, namely concerning the construction phases of buildings. At the end of last year Matt and I found a large phytolith deposit within space 118 building 68. As Matt would say, muchos grandos phytolithos. I refer to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Serena Love 
Team: Stanford 
Date: 8/1/2007 
Entry: A couple of things have come up in conversation today that I want to remember. First of all, Roddy said that the south wall of his sequence looked very unstable and it was likely to have collapsed. Also, his buildings were very short lived, evidenced by... click here for more... 
 

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