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 = 3340

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Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2011 
Entry: Today I continuted to work on unit 15349 with DLG in the northwest corner extension of the trench. It was difficult to get going on our area, as there were many people needing and using the 2 sieves that we had set up. I ended up moving to the southwest c... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2011 
Entry: We are moving pleasingly fast in the trench extension of Trench 5. The only limiting factor to the speed of the excavation is the soil sieving, so we are currently working on three sieves. JHB and RHB finished U.15351 over Space 454. They went down to th... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/20/2011 
Entry: DLG and PTW finished U.15349, which differs from the other topsoil layers on roughly the same level (15350, 15351) because it contains building materials such as dark grey brick, plaster, lime, burnt red brick and lumps of pale yellow clay. Most of these ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2011 
Entry: I continued to work on skeleton 15346 today, as on 21/7/2011 another layer of bones were found deep to where the thorax and some upper limb bones were located. This layer ended up being in situ with a typical Byzantine/Roman burial. The bones that were pr... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2011 
Entry: Thursday 21st July we continued excavating in the trench extension. DLG continued U.15358 west of Sp.343 and 342. DKK, CMB and EMM continued the massive U.15357 over the southern part of Sp.342, where JFB also excavated, documented and removed the skull o... click here for more... 
 
Name: DKK 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2011 
Entry: This is my first time at Catalhöyük, and this is my first diary entry of the season. Today, we have begun our second week of excavating. We have been expanding the square of trench 5 on the west mound in the south-western and western corner whilst waitin... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Excavation in the units with much soil went slowly today as the two sifting workman were missing. DLG continued U.15358, CMB and DKK continued U.15357. HLS continued going down and finding the cut in pit F.3331. It is now rather clear that there must be a... click here for more... 
 
Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Today I continued the drawing and excavation of skeleton 15346. Once I finished the drawing, I removed the forearms and hands in order to get a better view of the pelvis for a picture. I also took out many of the scattered foot bones so I could level the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2011 
Entry: Today DLG, while also doing a great job on the total station, finished his arbitrary layer of topsoil/disturbed soil U.15358 west of Sp.342 and 343. Tomorrow he will clean the planum to see in plan features that we can already see in the sections, includi... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2011 
Entry: Today, LMS came into the trench for more micromorphological samples. We had a discussion about wall F.2413/5055, which looks more like fill than like wall to the specialists. We discussed the possibility of B.98 consisting of walls and buttresses carved o... click here for more... 
 

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