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: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/28/1996 
Entry: Work on removing the upper phase of the N half of the building went very well today, with exciting evidence already appearing directly under the floors. Louise removed the curving wall feature (Feature 20) and it came down on to a lavishly plastered surfa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/5/1996 
Entry: We have been blown off site this afternoon, with no work possible after lunch. There is a terrific wind blowing from the west and filling our shelter with dust. We tried to tie down the canvas sides but that just put all the strain on the wooden frame whi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roger Matthews 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/15/1996 
Entry: Wind has got up again but it wasn't bad during site hours. We proceeded with excavation of the floors and lower deposits of Building 1. The burials are certainly going to take some time. Tona and Jenis continued to excavate burial 30, taking out the main ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gavin Lucas 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/24/1997 
Entry: Excavation of the wall moulding F.24 on the south wall proved to have a similar two phase construction as F.26 although the primary phase [2140] was more akin to a plaster pilaster than plaster around a timber; however, the form of this was more ambiguous... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/1998 
Entry: Back again and I have risen to the dizzy heights of supervising the North area, lots of extra responsibility and stress but no extra advantages or money. I would have been more happy to come back as a humble excavator and work on my oven and the rest of s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Mark Knight 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/21/1998 
Entry: Mud bonded mud-brick walls (F.’s 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7): Drawing the separate courses in detail has highlighted some consistent characteristics within the building components of the main walls of Building 1. As identified before, the extraordinary length o... click here for more... 
 

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