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: 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: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Infuriatingly, my last diary entry seems to have been mostly deleted. It contained a summary of the days events, a detailed expose of my hopes and fears and a rather fine limerick which I don't think I can recreate. Oh well. So today Sonya and I were s... click here for more... 
 
Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Day 9, Good and bad yesterday, thankfully in the right parts. We had a productive day of digging, and from my vantage point high up on the NW corner of T5 it looks like the team's hit a pretty good stride. People seemed less tense in and out of the tre... 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: 8/2/2008 
Entry: Another fun day in T5, as more and more features are being peeled out of their surrounding soil. Monique joined us for interwieving us on our way of excavating and documenting until breakfast. AWH and JJW finished documenting the pit 16889 and then joi... click here for more... 
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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: 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... 
 

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