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 = 2413

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Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/1/2007 
Entry: Team in good health, only Ray staying in in the afternoon. The Selcuk team, consisting of Asuman, Zafer, Zeliha and Utku finished drawing the two of the elevations of grave F. 2404 they chose to document. Then they took out the construction stones (uni... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/11/2007 
Entry: Tried the next old computer today to get my floppy-saved diary of the day before yesterday into the database, but it says that the floppy is not in the right format. Why then does it work fine with my Windows 98 laptop? Sarah is still hatching hopes she c... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2008 
Entry: Came back to Catal in the night of the 19th to the 20th after seven more months of travel and an exhausting summer term. Now, after two days, I start to get adjusted to the crowded yet mostly anonymous life here again. Yesterday was a bit of a chaotic ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Today went very smoothly and the work went very well in Trench 5. Excavators are becoming familiar once more with the Catal recording system and samples (archive and flotation) are beginning to be taken more consistently. We now also have a sieve, that ar... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Another busy and hectic Monday - but we have spaces finally! We have unveiled two new spaces. Space 340 is made up of four walls, features 2428 (units 16853 and 16854), 5052 (16855 and 16856), 5053 (units 16857 and 16858) and 2413 (units 16851 and 1685... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Connection breakdowns, meetings and football games have prevented me fro writing my diary for a few days. Today started like a real Monday (as Saturdays are virtual Mondays here). On Thursday JMR and KJK had taken down with unit 16833 what looked like... click here for more... 
 
Name: MB 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2008 
Entry: Sunday 27.07.08 Today I can formally announce the attribution of two space numbers in Trench 5 of the West Mound, 340 and 341, both of which are delimited by walls on the four sides. Space 341 corresponds to the fill 16859 that Katie, Jana and me clean... click here for more... 
 
Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2008 
Entry: (A note to other west mounders who've been having this problem: If you go to Unit/Feature/Space number fields without saving the record, you'll lose anything you've typed in the diary field since Access last automatically saved). Today was the first d... click here for more... 
 
Name: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2008 
Entry: Today was a bit frustrating, because we were still working on drawing the large section of walls on the northern part of the trench. The reason it was frustrating is because we were constantly having to ask others what was going on with the different wall... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2008 
Entry: Pretty frustrating day today. We wanted to finish the drawing of the wall situation in the NW corner of the square which we began yesterday. However, this turned into a day of scraping, brushing, trying to see something, not seeing what we had seen half a... click here for more... 
 

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