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: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/17/2004 
Entry: relatively few new developments took place in space 112 during this day. In the southwest of the extant part of space 112 Belize (BBT) continued the removal of the lowermost fill unit (unit 10823) in post retrieval pit unit 10817. This feature was des... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/2004 
Entry: The excavation of the burial feature 1702 (cut 10811, fill 10812, skeletons10813 and 10814) was continued by the same group of the human remains team. It seems a third individual was encountered in the burial feature, but no skeleton unit has been ass... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Two types of activities took place in space 112 on this day. First, the human remains team continued excavating the large burial feature f.1702. Second, I continued the investigation and documentation of the outer walls of space 112. Some spectacular d... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/2004 
Entry: The following activities took place in Space 112. Marin Pilloud continued working on the burial 1702, and lifted most of skeleton 10829. With these skeleton a large number of beads were found in the general area of the chest and the skull. Some of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2004 
Entry: Work continued on burial feature 1710. The work was done by Marin Pilloud and myself. The skeleton 10813 was further cleaned, photographed and documented. Given that the articulation of the skeleton is rather complicated this took a considerable amount of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda Düring 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/26/2004 
Entry: there are some remarkable developments in the southern part of space 112. In the human remains lab a refit could be made between the mandible of skeleton 10814 found in burial f1711 and the skull 10834 found in post retrieval pit 1705 (futher loose tee... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/28/2004 
Entry: In space 112 work skeleton 10840 was exposed to a large degree -feature 1702. Lori Hager did this job removing the above matrix 10842 which start at the brown interface covering skeleton 10840 and sloping down below sheep skeleton 10839. The skeleton is o... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/29/2004 
Entry: In space 112 the following activities took place. Lori Hager continued exposing skeleton 10840; removing unit 1842 in the process. The body was fully exposed and photographed. Marin Pilloud started drawing the skeleton; but this work will continue on 30-0... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda Düring 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/1/2004 
Entry: The outlook of space 112 changed dramatically in the course of this day. First I defined the bottom of cut 10811, feature 1702. Below where the sheep had been located a stone axe was found (unit 10842 -x1). A final drawing of the cut was made (04/920). ... click here for more... 
 

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