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: 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: 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... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2009 
Entry: Over the last few days JMR has been taking down space 310 slowly in order to expose any cultural surface that may be present. Today JMR began recording the elevations in space 310, having stopped excavating at unit 18348, suspected to be a surface. Featur... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2010 
Entry: EMM finished documenting the present state of excavation in Space 341 and moved over to the area east of buttress F.5057, where several large potsherds became visible during excavation last year. Some of them belong to what seems to be a pit (15160, 15162... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. PTW started tackling the fill east of buttress or wall F.5075 in the eastern extension of the trench. He defined the outlines of the ceastwards continuation of wall F.5067 and verified that F.5075 is a wall connected to F.5067... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: I’ve begun to work in space 447 as of today. Following the plaster outline visible in the plan, I was able to expose the northwest corner of buttress F.3319. While excavating the fill unit 15163 early in the day, I came across two large tiles, which I a... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2010 
Entry: JFB continued in pit F.3331, where a lot of non-articulated human bones now appear everywhere in the northern part and under the large stone, which was taken out today. Before taking it out, we documented the state of excavation in drawing and photo. E... 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... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: JHB continued working on cluster 16981, following it into Space 341; it ends in the doorway between Spaces 450 and 341, though – the cluster therefore is located north and northwest of buttress F.5057. In the doorway he uncovered a dense layer of phytolit... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2012 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. A not so nice new thing was rain damage due to the thunderstorm last night. I happens that the most leaking parts of the tent are over B.98. This one time we have a nice white plaster floor, and now we have little rain po... click here for more... 
 

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