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: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/2/2006 
Entry: The weather today was very hot with a lack of wind, but under the shelter it is very comfortable to dig. After a discussion with Shahina and Ian we changed our priorities to excavate the graves which we could cleared yet. So the members of our part of t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/3/2006 
Entry: The hottest day since we start working Work is still going on in Trench 6, today I tried to finish the paperwork so far, a lot of measurments and drawings to do. Today there were four students Selcuk University working on site, on the grave in the north... 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: Helen Lomas 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/6/2006 
Entry: Hottest day so far apparently, though didn’t feel it so badly in my strangely angled hole in trench 6. The Selcat team had exposed a mudbrick burial cut extending into the profile, with a layer of collapsed (or possible grave cover?) mudbricks haphazardly... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/6/2006 
Entry: After having a nice Trip to Can Hasan and Taskale we started digging today. It was extremely hot, at the moment every day seems to be hotter than the day before. In trench 6 today missed the team from Selcuk university, who had a seminar day today. W... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/7/2006 
Entry: Another day of excavation. Today it was not so hot, cause we had a little wind coming under the shelter. To finish the excavation there is a horrible mass of work to do. not only the excavation work, we are also forced to finish all units we decided to w... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/8/2006 
Entry: Windy day today, not so hot, workable weather. In Trench 6 the work is still going on, but just the Features next to the southern Trenchedge (F2454, F2456) were today finished, thanks to Naoise, who did a great job! Helen finally exposed the skeleton (1... click here for more... 
 

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