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: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/15/1997 
Entry: Its been too long since I last entered my diary and too much has happened to recap on specifics so I might just ramble on for a bit. I have to say losing some diary entries was demoralising specially as time is so tight. The power problem has been a real... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/28/1996 
Entry: Last diary entry for this season. We spent much of this week recording sections and walls as well as taking down walls that were not going to survive the following year. Space 117 is at a 1.2m depth from the N wall, the void in the centre of the room h... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 4/17/1999 
Entry: SHAHINA 17/4/99 We’ve just completed our first full week of excavation of the 6 month season with all personnel but as I’ve been here since the 30th March I thought I would recap on events so far and then discuss the excavation area and strategy. Kh... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/17/1999 
Entry: Diary up to 17th May1999 01.05.99 Saturday Today is my first working day at Çatal for 1999. I and Basak started to do the section drawing Rof North facing wall 79 and wall 406 (which cuts it) of Space 117 Building 2. Graphics no. 99/141. 02.05.99... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/16/1999 
Entry: I have been taking out the infill 4465 between wall 79 and wall 73. This infill is unusually full of large animal bones . It also contained the bones of a pole-cat which seems to have entered into the deposit through an animal burrow. There was some dis... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Today I continued to remove the wall 79 but I did not dig the fill in between two walls for now because a lot of animal bones appeared in the fill. And also today, in the west end of the wall, wall endings and the borders of the fill became clear.Ente... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/26/1999 
Entry: Diary up to 26.5.99 19/05/99 Today I cleaned the top of the truncated wall (79) by scraping to make its southern edge clear. It seems that the wall had leaned to the south. After lunch I have drawn the edge of the fill where in space 116 beside the wa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/7/1999 
Entry: Entries up to 07.06.99 30.05.99 Today removing of 483 wall almost finished. Also the fill between 483-79 walls appeared but there were some changings in the western half of the fill which looks more bricky and the eastern half was implying charcoal... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 6/9/1999 
Entry: Shahina 7th June Too much has happened since I last wrote a diary, too much to recap on so I’m just going to jot down a few things. I can only cover the archaeology in general terms as I’m not often found with a trowel in my hand on site and I’ve not... click here for more... 
 

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