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: Serena Love 
Team: Stanford 
Date: 7/20/2004 
Entry: Space 100 has indeed become the "horny" area. As Stephanie and I were clearing out the baulk (U. 7940) along the east wall, I found cluster of 3 plastered horn cores, in addition to the other horn core (U. 7920) that is leaning aginst the wall. The clu... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/23/2005 
Entry: Space 94 story: Fill 11937 was excavated today and it contains the very same material (mud brick with wood impressions) as 10286. The content of 11937 is burnt but much less than that of 10286. I think that when the fire started in the house 52, 119... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/4/2006 
Entry: We excavated more of the midden deposit (12988) this morning - up to the western edge of (12980), which is the upper midden overlying (12988). We can now say that (12980)=(12971). The excavation of (12988) released another mud-bricky demolition/dumping de... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/31/2006 
Entry: After finishing removing pit fills from 13169, we moved back south to tackle more midden deposits. Took off 13174 - a fairly extensive layer that also spilled over the east wall of Building 66, although it turned out to be less extensive than I thought it... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/6/2006 
Entry: The excavation of building 49 has continued over the past two weeks with the removal of a number of floor deposits and features. A skeleton was removed from grave cut [13608], F1656. The skeleton was that of and older male and was particularly interesting... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: The last two days I spent removing loads of soil in unit 16880. There were seven small finds up to now, two half complete vessels and some stones, worked and unworked. Compared to unit 16859 in space 341, where Katie is digging, there are much more finds ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2010 
Entry: XHB was kept busy today by the fill east of F.3322, which is full of pieces of plaster, pots, a grinding stone and other artefacts. Here he might have found a continuation of the plaster floor (15170) in Space 446, but this still remains unclear. We might... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Last day of excavation in Trench 5 for this year. EMM continued taking out clay ball cluster U.15343 and removed probably is main part, but still some of it is remaining is Space 449, there was no time to take them out and record. We will protect them... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jennifer 
Team:  
Date: 7/13/2013 
Entry: Today I was called up to site to excavate the beautifully preserved dog skeleton in the TPC area. It was so well preserved that the costal cartilidge (ossified soft tissue surrounding the ribcage) was present. The individual had some interesting pathologi... click here for more... 
 

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