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.
 
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Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/11/1996 
Entry: After last nights discussion on the unit sheet, I spent the day writing the instructions on how to complete the form as well, it's not quite finished. I also drew up an ammended version of the sheet, unfortunately the photocopying shop was closed and I ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/17/1996 
Entry: Beginning of the third week of excavation. Anwen has been moved from space 106 to space 108 which means work will continue in this area after lunch when Naomi works on finds . Mira continued to dismantle wall 51, taking brick and mortar samples both for... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/18/1996 
Entry: Space 105, Mary and Roddy managed to define their cut (1043), the bone cluster (1506) is within the cut but not as a primary deposit. The working theory is that the wall construction and the infilling was a side by side event within the cut, so the wall a... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/3/1996 
Entry: A slow day today, most of which was spent recording walls as I mentioned yesterday. Jon took the opportunity to work on pottery as he'd got to a stage where we need Anwens area to catch up in space 107, now 115. I'm doubtful about the foundation cut Ali ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ian Hodder 
Team: Project Director 
Date: 9/16/1996 
Entry: First impressions of the Mellaarts visit which began today. They both seemed very excited by being here and I'm glad we took the risk. They have also been helpful in many ways already - Jimmy remembered where he had dug the sounding below Shrine 8 - 5m by... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/28/1996 
Entry: Last diary entry for this season. We spent much of this week recording sections and walls as well as taking down walls that were not going to survive the following year. Space 117 is at a 1.2m depth from the N wall, the void in the centre of the room h... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/20/1997 
Entry: As I'm so far behind I've taken some sound advice which is to enter daily events and try to catch up in my own time as and when appropraite. So, today was quite eventful. Firstly, Ian has returned after a weeks absence, and 'though there were no major ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 4/17/1999 
Entry: SHAHINA 17/4/99 We’ve just completed our first full week of excavation of the 6 month season with all personnel but as I’ve been here since the 30th March I thought I would recap on events so far and then discuss the excavation area and strategy. Kh... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/26/1999 
Entry: Craig 26-4-99 Pete and I have been removing the post 1960’s infilling in Mellaart’s shrine 8 which is our building 7 space 164. The surrounding walls are coming up nicely and so far we seem to be managing just over one 0.2m spit a day. This also employ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/27/1999 
Entry: Craig 27-04-99 Continued removing backfill in space 164, I am still quite enjoying the physical exercise. Discovered that Mellaart left an ‘island’ of archaeology in the south-east corner which we will have to excavate once we have removed a few more s... click here for more... 
 

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