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: 80

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Name: roddy regan 
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Date: 7/19/2010 
Entry: First excavation diary 2010 we have been digging for two days now and it appears we may have a bit of a slog in building 80 as mostr of it is filled with very very compacted mudbrick like material. The dumps appear to consist of very broken up buildin... click here for more... 
 
Name: MB 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2010 
Entry: This is my first diary entry for the Catal 2010 season. I was in Catal in 2007 and 2008, so it feels a little bit like coming back home. However, there is an important change this year: I moved from the West Mound to the East Mound. Last year, during ... click here for more... 
 
Name: PDGDF 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2010 
Entry: We are excavating on the north side of B. 86 wall F. 5024. We documented a thin small layer of silt with ash between the components (19117), and then we started excavating a very compact layer which should be probably interpreted as wall collapse or demol... click here for more... 
 
Name: Chris Atkinson 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2010 
Entry: Hello Chaps and Chapess'!! Welcome to my first diary entry, and about time too. Thought of the day: It's sooooooooooooo Hoooooooooot and not good for gingers. It is my third week and second year of being here and I am enjoying it immensely. At the m... click here for more... 
 
Name: James T 
Team:  
Date: 7/3/2012 
Entry: OK time for a diary entry now that the chaos of the last week or two is beginning to subside. Things are underway in the South and we have finally built up a head of steam. Several meetings later and we have a clear understanding of Ian’s medium and lo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2012 
Entry: This first diary entry sums up mine and Mateusz Dembowiak's first two weeks at Catalhöyük. I have kept a field diary in my notebook, but have not had time to enter anything into the database until now. June 26th-July 30th Mainly introduction days. We ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gunhild Eriksdotter 
Team:  
Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: This memo was written in Stockholm two days after my departure from Catalhöyük July 12. Throughout my stay in Catalhöyük I was not only overwhelmed by the friendliness and professionalism of my new colleagues on the dig. Like many others, I was entranced... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ashley Lingle 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2012 
Entry: This is my first diary entry, despite being my third year here. I have had a very clear epiphany about my work here and wanted to share it. For two seasons now I have been working on the geometric wall painting in Building 80, Feature 5014. While uncoveri... click here for more... 
 
Name: Justine Issavi 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2013 
Entry: As many of you know, three buildings in the south shelter have embarked on a pilot project that introduces the use of tablets for field recording. 
 
Name: Gesualdo Busacca 
Team:  
Date: 7/18/2015 
Entry: We are diving into the earlier phases of our B.89. The hearth is slowly becoming rectangular, the northern and southern platforms are fading away, a new pit has joined our glorious collection of empty pits, floors goes away one after another. Elisa brings... click here for more... 
 

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