Displaying Diary Entries for Space: 105 |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/4/1996 |
Entry: | Work in Mellaart's area of excavation started today by clearing the overgrowth that had erupted across the areas of excavation since last season. Erosion in the area had been expected but the overgrowth was a surprise and had damaged considerably the hori... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/5/1996 |
Entry: | Pre-excavation photographs were taken of Space 105. On clearing the NW corner of the space, by Jon's area of excavation from last season, Roddy and Mary believed that the midden cut Jon had defined and partially dug, was sealed by the east wall of space 1... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/7/1996 |
Entry: | Yesterday Roddy and Mary continued excavating midden deposits in Space 105. Excavating south of Jon's area from last season an upper fill (1050) was excavated from within cut (1041), that apparently cut through a massive and compact deposit of building ... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/10/1996 |
Entry: | Space 105, Roddy and Mary continued to excavate what for now appears to be part of a consolidation packing for the SW walls, these series of deposits lie in a diagonal cut (1041) in this SW corner. Below (1067), which was a compound layer of building debr... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/13/1996 |
Entry: | I didn't get to finish my report yesterday as we had our first evening seminar led by Ian, on what we're doing here.
Ian worked for the morning in space 107 with Ali and Henry joined us in the afternoon. Ali numbered the unit he excavated yesterday as ... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/15/1996 |
Entry: | Didn't get to enter yesterday's diary because of the loss of power and the subsequent difficulties with the data base. Overall yesterday was a pretty slow day digging wise as most areas had some form of recording or difficult problems to deal with. Space ... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/17/1996 |
Entry: | Beginning of the third week of excavation. Anwen has been moved from space 106 to space 108 which means work will continue in this area after lunch when Naomi works on finds . Mira continued to dismantle wall 51, taking brick and mortar samples both for... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/18/1996 |
Entry: | Space 105, Mary and Roddy managed to define their cut (1043), the bone cluster (1506) is within the cut but not as a primary deposit. The working theory is that the wall construction and the infilling was a side by side event within the cut, so the wall a... click here for more... |
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Name: | Shahina Farid |
Team: | Field Director |
Date: | 8/24/1996 |
Entry: | I can't remember what happened on Thursday apart from the electricity going off and our walls were still standing. We had a field staff meeting about general moans and groans one being that we had no goal for the end of the season. I thought we had but ob... click here for more... |
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Name: | Ian Hodder |
Team: | Project Director |
Date: | 8/25/1996 |
Entry: | Had what I considered a major breakdown recently which has been resolved to some extent now but is part of an underlying problem. It started with Roddy saaying he coudnt take this type of digging. He felt marginalised and frustrated at being at the beck a... click here for more... |
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