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 Space: 170

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Name: Ian Hodder 
Team: Project Director 
Date: 8/9/1996 
Entry: It is clear that I am not going to be able to do this diary every day and wll have to settle for intermittent entries as time allows. There have been some initial difficulties which are gradually being sorted out. Of particular importance is that the spec... click here for more... 
 
Name: Peter Boyer 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/12/1999 
Entry: Its more than a week since my last diary entry and there are a few things to mention in relation to the infill removal shenanigans in Space 163/170. The space has been divided into four quadrants of which the first to experience infill removal was the nor... click here for more... 
 
Name: Peter Boyer 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/23/1999 
Entry: It seems its well over a week since my last diary entry so I had better make another one now, before I head off to Ankara for a week. Anyway the burial F460 has been completed, and I think Basak said it was a male in its early 20s. With the removal of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Charlie Newman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/13/1999 
Entry: The state of play in Building 6 Space 163 is that it is now Building 17 Space 170. All infill has now been removed and the primary destruction fill of the newly exposed room was gridded into 1.0m squares and sampled systematically to reveal all the new fe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Peter Boyer 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/10/1999 
Entry: Today is the 13th anniversary of my graduation (well the first time around anyway), that's interesting isn't it ? Well its a little while since I last made this type of contribution, since before I went on my Holiday. Anway, had a wonderful, hassle-fr... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/1999 
Entry: The oven area I abandoned 2 weeks ago was inherited by Anwen and now that she has more or less completed this area we have been able to sort out the matrix . We did end up deciding - after checking the digital photos, plans and the sketches on the unit s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Charlie Newman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/29/1999 
Entry: Ok... Ok... so I haven’t been keeping up with my diary, but I did qualify as a diver on the west coast and got see a full eclipse up north. So why the lack of entries to Dear Diary?, its because we’ve been working on site every evening and I’m a shagged, ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/12/1999 
Entry: Its quite a while since I wrote a diary entry. Since I returned from two weeks well needed holiday in England, I started working with Jonathan Last in space 173, revealing the walls and trying to find the floor. Then I began working in space 170 with Ch... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jonathan Last 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/14/1999 
Entry: Here is where we’re at in Sp. 182. We found ‘dirty’ floors at both ends of the room, defined as such by the presence of macro artefacts, layers/lenses of orange material and charcoal, though the flotation samples proved relatively clean. These were exca... click here for more... 
 
Name: JL, FC 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2015 
Entry: Over the last week, we have removed the remaining room fill from the excavation of 1999 which was stuck against the south and east walls in order to get into phase with the earliest known phase (E) of B17, space 170. We have experienced difficulties in co... click here for more... 
 

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