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: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/11/1996 
Entry: A very cold Monday night, and in Tuesday morning I was not feeling very well. I had to leave most of the work to Tania, Yiannis and Nikos. Good progress was made. They tried to finish the NW area of the trench where the collapsed plaster had been found on... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/14/1996 
Entry: A new week after an excellent Friday in Konya. We started taking out the floors cleared the previous week. The aim here is to relate the patches of clay plaster in the centre of the trench with the floors which we had previously uncovered in its western p... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 9/21/1996 
Entry: We are almost at the end of this season and work in Building 10 has reached a good point. The architecture of the house has been cleared up and the overall plan is now complete. Along the Eastern wall there is a low bench and a platform, which goes into t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kostas Kotsakis 
Team: Thessaloniki Team 
Date: 8/24/1997 
Entry: Arrived in Catal Hoyuk on August, 21st. Only three of us, Yiannis Imamidis, Evangelia Kiriatzi and myself. The rest of the team are waiting for the permits back in Thessaloniki. Work started in Summit on the 23rd. A new trench 4 x 9 m was opened to the e... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gudmundur Jonsson 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/23/2003 
Entry: Hello again !! Excavation commenced in the south shelter yesterday. It has been decided that the area is to be called the "south summit" - henceforth any forms and logging will use this identifier. There has been a change to the excavation team -... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/17/2004 
Entry: diary entry 4 To catch up with developments in the last few days, I removed the final pot (10675) from the rubbish mound, and have finished plans in scales 1:20 and in 1:10. One pot was left in situe as it seems to belong to a lower layer with floors r... click here for more... 
 
Name: Serena Love 
Team: Stanford 
Date: 8/1/2004 
Entry: Today was our last official day of digging. SF informed us that we are to stop where we are and proceed with recording everything because there is a good chance that we will not be back in this building next year. Makes sense. I did not write an entry ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/1/2004 
Entry: entry 9 The last few days have been spent up on the East walls, rather than in the building. Roddy took over my excavations on the North platform which had been put on hold for Richard while he was looking at platform 1320, stratiagraphically the north... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/13/2005 
Entry: Since last week we have concentrated on removing the remains of the primary construction phases of the building to the east of the structure. To this end Platform F. 1312, Platform F. 1332 and Bench F. 1310 have now been recorded and removed. The n... click here for more... 
 

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