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: Allison Mickel 
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Date: 7/4/2014 
Entry: We’ve been digging in Building 96 for a week now—although of course it doesn’t look so different in the building notorious for endless floors and burials. True to its reputation, we began right away with excavating an exposed skeleton (u. 20850) from last... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2014 
Entry: After a few days MIA, I've begun work again in Building 96, soon to be joined by Jenna! And it's business as usual-- endless removal of squeaky clean floors and their makeup, while the conservation team works hard to reveal the geometric wall painting on ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2014 
Entry: It’s been a great week in Building 96, thanks largely to Jenna joining the team! She takes over in the afternoons while I conduct ethnographic interviews with Cansu’s indispensable help. Jenna has become a master of plaster, wielding the leaf trowel to un... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2014 
Entry: We may be getting close to the bottom of the floor sequence in Building 96! It's tricky, though, because we haven't had any burials out of platform f. 3507, and with so many coming out of f. 3508, we would expect to find some there as well. But in section... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2014 
Entry: With only five more work days left, it's hard to imagine getting to a really fulfilling stage with building 96. Today, I discovered that there are more than two floor layers left after all-- and despite our best attempts to group them, they evade grouping... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2014 
Entry: We have finished digging for the season in Building 96 and all that's left is the documentation! It would have been nice to get to a really consistent plaster layer across the building at the very end, but unfortunately that's not what happened. Makeup la... click here for more... 
 

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