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: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/27/1999 
Entry: In the last week I have drawn all the walls in space 159 and taken out walls 414 and 400. Wall 400 came down onto a layer which looks like brick although in elevation it appeared to be fill. There also appears to be another wall below 414 and running pa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/28/1999 
Entry: After a closer examination of the walls this morning most of what I concluded yesterday afternoon is in fact invalid. It is much easier to see without the glare of the afternoon sun! The material under wall 400 is in fact a dark brown, clayey fill rathe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/2/1999 
Entry: During excavation it became clear that what was thought in 1998 to be two dividing walls is in fact only one (F 403) with a lot of wall-shaped infill up against it, wall 402 does not exist. In taking down wall 403 it became clear that the southern part o... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/27/1999 
Entry: In the last week I have drawn all the walls in space 159 and taken out walls 414 and 400. Wall 400 came down onto a layer which looks like brick although in elevation it appeared to be fill. There also appears to be another wall below 414 and running pa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/10/1999 
Entry: In taking out wall 400 it became apparent that what was thought to be a southern continuation of wall 400 is in fact mixed fill containing unstructured wall material. This layer continues at the same level as the last course of brick in wall 400. It is ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/16/1999 
Entry: I have been taking out the infill 4465 between wall 79 and wall 73. This infill is unusually full of large animal bones . It also contained the bones of a pole-cat which seems to have entered into the deposit through an animal burrow. There was some dis... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Today I have been drawing and removing wall 93. At the southern edge it has been cut in the same way as wall 400. The cut hangs over at its top edge and is then slightly undercut as it goes down. The wall is incredible tough and hard. The brick and mo... click here for more... 
 

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