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 = 1310

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Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Diary entry 5 In the last few days, I have been working on platform F1312, taking down the layers and working out the relationships with the surrounding features. The area around the rubbish pit (F.1325) has become a little clearer, but some of the lay... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/1/2004 
Entry: Ever since we realised that the original cut we saw in platform F.1320 was in all probability a 'robber' cut I've been excavating on the platform with the expectation of finding the cut(s) for the 2 or 3 articulated bodies that we know to be there - due t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/2/2004 
Entry: Anticipated an obsidian cluster today but didn't get to excavate it as I realised that it's lying under a plaster re-facing of the bench F.1310, (noticed also that there is a still later re-facing on the north side of the bench surviving at the east end).... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/3/2004 
Entry: Diary entry 10 The last two days have been spent tying up the loose ends of the building. I began by removing a plaster facing (11474 on the bench (f.1310), facing the south (platform f.1312) and then the thin stripof packing/makeup lying in what would... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/8/2005 
Entry: First diary entry of 2005 season. The south summit shelter appears to work very well at protecting the archaeology, the area, building 44 just needed a bit of a sweep and we could begin again. Began digging on Wednesday and started removing some of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/2005 
Entry: Its been couple of days since the last diary entry. In the meantime we finished excavating building 51, space 98 to its final phase if use/ Apart from conservation, the building wont be touched again this year. We started taking out the room fill of a c... 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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