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: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/21/2004 
Entry: diary entry 6 Yesterday I spent time taking off layers of wall plaster, and excavating another hard lump of material beside the probable ladder setting (11271). There are many of these which have come off now, it really seems that this area was used fo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/26/2004 
Entry: diary entry 7 Have been waiting for Richard to free up the next layer on the platfrom, which is sealed by some wall plaster adjoining the area he is working in (F1320). So yesterday I helped Roddy plan and remove a floor layer from the main floor (1140... 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: 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... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/15/2005 
Entry: The last few days have been spent working through the last few layers and deposits in building 44. Roddy has been mostly tied up with the bench and platform to the south of the building, and then the burials under 1320. I have been working mostly on platf... click here for more... 
 

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