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: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Another busy and hectic Monday - but we have spaces finally! We have unveiled two new spaces. Space 340 is made up of four walls, features 2428 (units 16853 and 16854), 5052 (16855 and 16856), 5053 (units 16857 and 16858) and 2413 (units 16851 and 1685... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Today there is one good and one bad message about the area Katie and me are working on. The good message is that after hours of scraping we identified four walls (features 5054, 5055, 5056 and 5057) which close space 341, the room whose fill we have been ... click here for more... 
 
Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2008 
Entry: (A note to other west mounders who've been having this problem: If you go to Unit/Feature/Space number fields without saving the record, you'll lose anything you've typed in the diary field since Access last automatically saved). Today was the first d... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2008 
Entry: Today JJW and AH continued digging down what appears to be part of a pit located between the cut of grave 2420 and the W profile using unit 16878. While its S edge cuts into the EC roomfill S of 2420, the pit itself was cut by 2420. It contained four arti... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2008 
Entry: Smooth workflow today. Maxime, Katie and me tried to find the borders of the disturbed area 16861, which turned out to be much larger than we thought. Its borders are not visible everywhere, but I think we got it quite well by feeling where the soil would... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2008 
Entry: Now that we got down to the top levels of walls almost eveywhere in T5, more and more people in the trench get their individual space to dig. RBW and JJW, however, had to stay in today. Good to have AWH to tend the Total Station! The shading shed is reall... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2008 
Entry: Yesterday in the evening the 2007 DAI Reisestipendiaten arrived at Catalhoyuk, which is great fun for me, and I spent some hours after breakfast showing them around the mounds. We started the day with a thorough brushing of the whole trench 5 which is ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: First day of the last week, lots of problems solved today! As we got excellent results in defining the architectural pattern this year, we decided to not push ourselves down to floors etc. where we might hit a lot of interesting and time-consuming structu... click here for more... 
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Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: I stopped writing diaries when I began staying out an extra three hours for the long shot, and am far enough behind that I won't be able to recount everything. We now have an elevation model stretching from T7 to the road just outside the Istanbul tren... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2008 
Entry: Today DEL started documentation in space 342 while I dug into 17229 to expose more of the newborn skeleton 16835. The skull, however, appeared to continue further W than the white plastery chunks that form the boundaries of the clayey soil of 17299. So I ... click here for more... 
 

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