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 Feature = 13

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Name: Gavin Lucas 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/27/1997 
Entry: Work finally started yesterday on taking down the sub-floor layers in Building 1; we have left Chad working on the final skeletons under platform F.13 and strung out the interior of the building on a 2 metre grid aligned to the main site grid. I have deci... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gavin Lucas 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/4/1997 
Entry: Work has been really speeding up now - the make up deposits for Building 1 are being excavated fairly rapidly and it is having a tremendous impact on the appearance of the site. As far as we can ascertain, these deposits consist of single episode infills/... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gavin Lucas 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/13/1997 
Entry: A long time since my last entry but various excuses can be given - illness, backlog of unit sheets to check (which are now more or less upto date) and the fact that little new has happened. First a note on the unit sheets; the completion of these is not ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/26/1996 
Entry: Another solid day of recording - we have now produced a marvellous 1:20 plan of Building 1, with much detail on it - levels, slopes, plaster lines, Munsell colours etc. It will serve as a base map for all future analyses of the building and its contents. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/28/1996 
Entry: Work on removing the upper phase of the N half of the building went very well today, with exciting evidence already appearing directly under the floors. Louise removed the curving wall feature (Feature 20) and it came down on to a lavishly plastered surfa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/12/1996 
Entry: All going well - for the first time it looks like we really will complete the excavation of Building 1 this season. Today's work: Engin, Mehmet and I excavated floors in Space 70 reaching ashy levelling material all over except for under platform 16 where... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/14/1996 
Entry: Start of another week on site after a Friday trip to Ivriz and Meke Golu. It has been a very windy day with dust blowing through the tent and into our faces and hair. It is still blowy now but no sign of rain. Excavation proceeds well. Space 70 is not far... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/15/1996 
Entry: Wind has got up again but it wasn't bad during site hours. We proceeded with excavation of the floors and lower deposits of Building 1. The burials are certainly going to take some time. Tona and Jenis continued to excavate burial 30, taking out the main ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/19/1996 
Entry: It has been a busy few days lately and we have been working late on site, so no time for the diary. Work is going well as we truly approach the end of the season. The past days have been spent in two principal activities: section drawing and burial excava... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/22/1996 
Entry: A day of steady work in the building. Burials were worked on by Tona, Jenis, Bashak, Adnan and Louise. Tona cleaned the infant burial at the N end of platform 13, the very latest burial in the platform, and found a chain of small pierced beads about its n... click here for more... 
 

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