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 = 2403

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Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/30/2006 
Entry: Team: all except Ezra, Ingmar and Sedef after lunch, plus Jonathan and Catriona and one visiti by Basak to hae a look at upcoming graves. Weather: hot, only occasional strong gales Due to constant problems with the Total Station, digging activity was ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/31/2006 
Entry: Team: everybody minus Ezra and Helen plus Jonathan and Catriona. Three members of the Selcuk team (Zeliha, Vildan, Nesime) joined us today, and the tent over trench 6 was put up today to provide shelter when the burials there are taken out. Weather: pret... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/1/2006 
Entry: Team: all without Ezra, plus Jonathan and Catriona Weather: pretty hot In trench 5, Gulgun and Hanife planned the stones 13722, so they are ready for take-out tomorrow. Within unit 13743, we reached a female skeleton 13746 in grave feature 2403, w... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/2/2006 
Entry: Team: all in the morning, Tom and Helen at the dighouse after lunch, Jonathan and Catriona Weather: very hot and no wind, good to have the shelter In Trench 5, Ezra, Gulgun, Gulay and Hanife were engaged in taking off the stones 13722 and thus exposed... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/3/2006 
Entry: Team: all except Ezra plus Jonathan and Catriona, Sevgi, Leila, Nesime, Zeliha, Vildan, Arsuman Hanim and Zafer from the Selcuk team joining Weather: still hotter than yesterday Gulgun and Hanfe managed to draw the grave lining in grave 2404 (13757) t... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/6/2006 
Entry: Yesterday, while the Cambridge team was in Cappadocia, the rest of us made a nice trip to the Karaman museum and Can Hasan, where we had a look at French's trenches (unfortunately now used as rubbish dumps) and at the pottery. Today, full team except ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naoise Mac Sweeney 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/8/2006 
Entry: Finished plans and elevation sketches to finally finish up graves F2454 and F2456. Its good they're now closed and done with. Did some organising of what unit sheets we have and what needs to be typed up, so we can keep track of what needs to be done and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/8/2006 
Entry: Team: is there one? Weather: not as hot as during the last days Totalstationci: Sedef Trench 5: Vildan did a great job exposing the skeleton 13784 in grave 2406 today, using unit 13771 for the grave fill. It has been photographed and is ready for ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/9/2006 
Entry: Weather: pretty hot, and we worked outside until 6 o'clock to manage the graves With Sedef at the Total Station and Nejat mainly in photography, Zeliha finished excavating grave 2404 and we obtained a date for it (13780) and its disturbance (13781). Vi... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/11/2006 
Entry: Yesterday was a hard day, but we managed to get all the graves and skeletons documented and out, especially Scott was a great help these days. In Trench 5, grave 2406 and 2409 were finished. Under the fill 13771 of the first, we uncovered yet another w... click here for more... 
 

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