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: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 4/17/1999 
Entry: SHAHINA 17/4/99 We’ve just completed our first full week of excavation of the 6 month season with all personnel but as I’ve been here since the 30th March I thought I would recap on events so far and then discuss the excavation area and strategy. Kh... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/25/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. 25/04/1999. A brief account of today 's events: Following on from yesterday afternoon , we continued excavation of wall F.299 , to the south of Space 115. This has now been sub-divided into: (4211) brick , (4212) mortar , (4213) wall , and... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/27/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. 27/04/1999. Yesterday morning , we completed excavation of wall F.299 at the southern limit of Space 115 , and moved on to later wall F.406 , which overlaps F.299 to the north and east , with wall repair (4224) to F.299 , stratigraphically li... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 5/1/1999 
Entry: The aim at the start of the season, once the original area of excavation was changed, was to finish space 117, building 2 and excavate as much of space 115 so as to release wall 406 to excavate that and make building 7 (shrine 8) safe to work in. Wall 40... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/2/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. 02/05/1999. Richard and myself , have now joined Craig in Space 164. Our excavation of wall F.406 , (which runs e-w across the upper northern limit of Space 164) , has been delayed. Initially , this was because of the conservation work being ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Written on the 16th, and out of date even then. A brief review of recent events on site: On the 12th and 13th, Richard and myself completed the pre-ex. plan for Building 18, which allowed Craig to start excavation of the east wall in Building 7, which... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/8/1999 
Entry: Since getting out of the midden and taking down the wall ( 299 ) on the south side of space 115 I have been working with Jez in space 164, to start with carting zembils of spoil as the Mellaart backfill came out of this space, and then, once we had got do... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/11/1999 
Entry: Jez Taylor. Tues. 11/05/1999. Space 164. Building 7. On Sunday, we finally finished drawing the south-facing elevation. So far this has been numbered as follows: Main wall - F.448, (4370) - plaster face to F.448, floor layer remnants (4371), plaster beh... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/17/1999 
Entry: Diary up to 17th May1999 01.05.99 Saturday Today is my first working day at Çatal for 1999. I and Basak started to do the section drawing Rof North facing wall 79 and wall 406 (which cuts it) of Space 117 Building 2. Graphics no. 99/141. 02.05.99... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/13/1999 
Entry: Note: in space 173/163 the crawl-hole I originally numbered as F.487 has been renumbered as F.500 as I took out an existing number. Took down wall at the north end of space 173. ( F.483 ) to about 0.20m above floor level, after first removing wall pl... click here for more... 
 

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