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: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/17/2007 
Entry: Full team except Katie H. Naomi had to stay in after lunch, too. Michaela drew and started to lift the skeleton 14296 in F. 2419. Good day today after more sleep last night. Mood hope- and cheerful, singing Turku songs in the trench. Started to doc... 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: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2008 
Entry: Today and yesterday were really good days out in the trench, despite PFB still being slightly ill, UY hitting his head on the sieve installation, and a few minor hand injuries while troweling ferociously. The trench looks more straightforward each day as ... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2008 
Entry: Small team today as MB has left, Ismail is working somewhere else again since yesterday and others were sick, and myself feeling a bit dizzy and affected by the stomach bug. Also, we had a strong S wind today, which is an unusal weather situation. Don't w... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2009 
Entry: Today PTW and myself continued in space 343 excavating 18314. Beneath this rather sterile layer of compact rubble consisting of broken mudbrick, clumps of marly plaster, burnt mudbrick frags, we cut into a layer (which has not yet been assigned a unit num... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: TEB and I had JFB back in space 343 today, after the removal of the neonate from space 342. The three-person team works very well for shifting large amounts of earth. We are able to specialize tasks and move very quickly. It slows down about when TEB i... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: Today PTW, JFB and myself continued in space 343 lifting room fill 18314. The lower coarse of mudbricks underlying the walls defining space 343 (F.5074, 5050=2425, 2426) continue to be exposed as we lift 18314. The fill 18314 contains very few inclusions ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2009 
Entry: PTW, JFB and myself continued with unit 18314 today. We were able to lift out more of it and have a little bit left to remove tomorrow before beginning room fill 18342 that is defined by the walls and buttresses in space 343. We have been able to tentativ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2009 
Entry: Over the last few days JMR has been taking down space 310 slowly in order to expose any cultural surface that may be present. Today JMR began recording the elevations in space 310, having stopped excavating at unit 18348, suspected to be a surface. Featur... click here for more... 
 

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