| Displaying Diary Entries for Building: 96 |
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| Name: | Lisa Yeomans |
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| Date: | 7/31/2010 |
| Entry: | We have been working in B.96 in the south area which abuts the western wall of the unexposed building below B.76 and the eastern wall of Sp.365. It comprises of a main room Sp.370 and a northern storage room Sp.444 and the southern part of the building e... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Lisa Yeomans |
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| Date: | 8/3/2010 |
| Entry: | We started excavation of the northern side room (Sp.444) and this room was infilled (particularly to the north with burnt fill). The sides of the walls facing into the room were burnt and this was possibly part of the series of burnt buildings that Mella... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Lisa Yeomans |
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| Date: | 8/10/2010 |
| Entry: | Finally after removing sixteen tons of clay (if we counted all our buckets correctly) up over three meters and out of the south shelter, we have reached the floors of Sp.370. Only the northern part of the building has been exposed with the southern part e... click here for more... |
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| Name: | James T |
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| 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... |
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| Name: | JB |
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| Date: | 6/30/2013 |
| Entry: | Today we (Johanna B. and Kyle) have cleaned building 96 for excavation to start. A small unit (u.20800) has been removed, which is interpreted as an infill layer in a pit. During season 2012 it was at first interpreted as a part of layer u.19715 (a possib... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Johanna Bergqvist |
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| Date: | 6/30/2013 |
| Entry: | OBS! Last diary entry by me (JB) today actually concerned 29.06.13.
30.06.13.
In the beginning of work today we scraped away small remains left from last year of the floor plaster on platform F3507, in order to try to see how it relates stratigraphi... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Johanna Bergqvist |
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| Date: | 7/8/2013 |
| Entry: | It is a most intimate process to excavate a burial – to expose the remains of a human being to the world again, after it having been hidden for – in this case – so many thousands of years. First, the almost sacred moment when you encounter the skeleton, m... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Johanna Bergqvist |
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| Date: | 7/16/2013 |
| Entry: | I have started excavating what will probably show to be another burial in one of the eastern platforms (the second one counted from the north wall) in Building 97/Space 370. The burial fill has been exposed for some years, trampled by archaeologists worki... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Johanna Bergqvist |
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| Date: | 7/22/2013 |
| Entry: | Building 96, Space 370, is, despite its quite limited size, one with a lot of burials. These are, so far, situated mainly in the eastern platform. One adult individual/skeleton, was removed last week, and another one (also adult) was exposed, which is now... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Johanna Bergqvist |
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| Date: | 7/23/2013 |
| Entry: | Archaeological field work is a craft, as carpentry or making pottery. And as in most crafts, we archaeologists use our intellectual know-that and know-how, but are, perhaps first and foremost, dependent on the knowledge of our senses. This fundamental but... click here for more... |
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