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: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: TEB and I had JFB back in space 343 today, after the removal of the neonate from space 342. The three-person team works very well for shifting large amounts of earth. We are able to specialize tasks and move very quickly. It slows down about when TEB i... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: Today PTW, JFB and myself continued in space 343 lifting room fill 18314. The lower coarse of mudbricks underlying the walls defining space 343 (F.5074, 5050=2425, 2426) continue to be exposed as we lift 18314. The fill 18314 contains very few inclusions ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2009 
Entry: PTW, JFB and myself continued in space 343 lifting unit 18314. We decided to fast track the unit, but after a few hours, realised that our dry sieve finds would not be representative of the entire fill of 343, so we went back to dry sieving and hope to co... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2009 
Entry: PTW, JFB and myself continued with unit 18314 today. We were able to lift out more of it and have a little bit left to remove tomorrow before beginning room fill 18342 that is defined by the walls and buttresses in space 343. We have been able to tentativ... 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: 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: 7/31/2011 
Entry: JFB drew burial F.3347 today and took out the bones. It turns out that some of the skeleton is outside trench borders, we are currently discussing what to do about that. She was assisted by a micromorphology specialist taking samples to identify rest of s... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. DLG started cleaning the plastered face of wall F.3344 (removed fill U.16930). Afterwards, the base of the wall became visible; it is sitting on very homogeneous grey fill. It looks nearly like nicely sieved soil and m... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2011 
Entry: Nice progress in the trench on Thursday and today, although several areas start to become more complicated than they seemed to be. As usual! HLS continued to expose the plaster feature U.16932. We are not that sure any more that is is a floor, although... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2011 
Entry: JHB and CMB continue to excavate lenses of room fill in Space 342, which are distinguishable from each other by certain characteristics such as number and size of sherds, colours and inclusions (U.16958, U.16959). It seems that these lenses are lying on t... click here for more... 
 

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