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.
 
Displaying Diary Entries for Feature = 5058

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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: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2009 
Entry: Back on the West Mound. We arrived last week late Sunday night and started working in the trench on Tuesday. The three days were spent with cleaning (unit 18300) and the first bit of excavating in Space 343 (Unit 18301) . Today I started excavating in S... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: I excavated another spit of 5cm in Sp 310 today (Unit 18303). Just as yesterday, huge amounts of large animal bones clustered in the NW corner of the space and along its W wall (F. 5058). As today also a lot of large pot sherds appeared, some of them stic... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2009 
Entry: I drew and removed clusters 18320 and 18319 today. Some sherds of 18320 had phytoliths sticking on the side that was turned down. Those were indicated on the drawing and photographed. One sherd was black on the side which was turned down. X3 that was ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: I drew a plan of the top level of 18326 today, which will be the next spit of roomfill in Sp 310. While doing so, I had to take back my impression that the fill was now more homogeneous than beforehand. A new thing are spots of reddish soil, I still do no... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2009 
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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2009 
Entry: Diary for 18.8. I started excavating the third spit of room fill in Sp 310 today (18326). Soil still very heterogeneous. Fill continues to contain huge amounts of pot sherds and animal bones. I expected that the cluster defined in the horizon above (18... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/27/2009 
Entry: This year's season was very efficient due to an excellent team, and as TEB has taken over the technical part of the diary I had done during the previous three years, this day of recovery from a feaverish cold is the time to summarize my view of our result... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2010 
Entry: Today, BOD drew the features we defined yesterday after levelling the area in the NE corner of the trench (F.5052, 5057, 3321, 3320,3322, 3326, 3324). JFB drew the floor (15170) in Space 446. EMM finished taking out cluster U.15160 and defined the outline... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2010 
Entry: EMM continued working on the clay ball cluster U.15343 in Space 449. Its outlines are visible now, it is a heap of balls in the eastern part of the trench, fading towards west. IF finished room fill U.15335 in Space 310. At the present level, a seemingly ... click here for more... 
 

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