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: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/2004 
Entry: Realised towards the end of the windy day last week when 'Ancient Clues' was being filmed in our house (the 14th I think) that I was completely fed up with digging endless floors and floor make-up layers. However the last couple of days a welcome respite ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Took off a plaster surface (11243) which was cut by removal pit 11239, post or stake-hole 11248 and the grave or burial removal cut 11217. Then took off a plaster make-up (11251) which was directly over the fill (11254) of an apparent grave cut. I've star... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/2004 
Entry: Whats happened since my last entry? Well things apart from the burial situation are swinging along nicely. The digging of the burials from the platforms will no doubt take some time, not only do we appear to have a few judging by the already exposed sec... 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: 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... 
 

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