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: 77

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Name: MWH 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: The last week has been very good in building 77, we have removed many of the smaller deposits in the upper sequence of room fills and both space 336 and 337 are beginning to take shape. Lisa has reached the floor at the southern end of 337 the store room... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dorthe Nistad 
Team:  
Date: 8/13/2010 
Entry: It is 15 years ago that I, as an undergraduate student, for the first time heard about Catalhoyuk, and the pictures from this excavation has since then shaped my interest in archaeology. It was the animal symbolism that first caught my eye, especially the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Sadie Weber 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2010 
Entry: The stratigraphy as absolutely fascinating in that it is clear – to see at least; however, in interpretation, it (as all sites) becomes more difficult. What has baffled me the most is that everything appears to be so predictable - appears is the key word... click here for more... 
 
Name: DE 
Team:  
Date: 7/20/2011 
Entry: Started excavating in B.77, where Mike left off last season. Have a lot to deal with in the building, but hope to get it finished by the end of this season. Started by removing (19265), the last fragment of ‘Mike’s cupboard’ F6050. This sealed a series o... click here for more... 
 
Name: DE 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: Spent all day recording new phase in building. As well as regular phase photos and video we also worked with laser scanning team to create a 3D model of the building and a laser scan of the phase. Phase defined by removal of large bin F.6050. Below thi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2012 
Entry: I’ve not had time to write individual diaries due to other things, so this will be a long entry. Last week on Thursday, we were blessed by two Turkish travellers’ presence in the North shelter. One of them, without asking, without contemplating, with ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Susan Hyden 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: I have been excavating some interesting Neolithic burials in the North area this season. First an infant in a basket (F.1014) which was buried together with an older individual (F.3629) in space 87. Both were found by the Bach team ten years ago after the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 7/1/2013 
Entry: Work has begun in full blast since the teams arrived on the 25th and 26th of the month. New teams, new students, and a new season. And lots of babies, which is quite refreshing really. I arrived on site on the 19th of June - this is rather a late diar... click here for more... 
 
Name: Susan 
Team:  
Date: 7/7/2013 
Entry: I do not remember if I wrote about this last year or if I just thought I would, but even if I did, it can be said again: Writing a handover document at the end of the season would be a great idea. I recalled this as I began excavating the burials inside t... click here for more... 
 
Name: ak 
Team:  
Date: 7/8/2013 
Entry: Together with Ugur we had worked today mainly on the Northern wall of space 488 (F.3626). The task aimed to excavate lower part of the mentioned construction and recognize its specification. In particular we focused on tracking the relationship between t... click here for more... 
 

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