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: 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: 8/27/1996 
Entry: We started excavating again today. Gavin and Serap took out wall 15 in Space 70. The wall comprised irregular bricks and a little plaster on its N face. The highly burnt floor of Space 70 continued beautifully under the wall, showing that wall 15 was inst... 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: 9/4/1996 
Entry: Things went okay today. We continued to excavate the upper floors in the N part of the building. It went well and we now have almost all the building down to the main pre-burning phase. Late this afternoon we began removing wall 18, the late wall which wa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/5/1996 
Entry: We have been blown off site this afternoon, with no work possible after lunch. There is a terrific wind blowing from the west and filling our shelter with dust. We tried to tie down the canvas sides but that just put all the strain on the wooden frame whi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/9/1996 
Entry: My first entry for a few days. I am feeling quite frustated on the whole. There are considerable pressures on us to perform here, and yet one's peformance is so dependent upon other people and extraneous circumstances. Sounds like whingeing. We had a TAG ... click here for more... 
 

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