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: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/15/1999 
Entry: An update on recent events. I've been out of circulation dairy-wise for a couple of weeks, trying to keep my paper-work up to date. First thing of note - I excavated infill (4477), which lipped over east-west wall F.482, (Space179). We expected (4477) to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/27/1999 
Entry: Started to excavate last week in Space 178, Building 23. Working on a stratigraphically straight-forward sequence of ‘fire-installation’ deposits (no.s 4734 to 4740 & 4744 ). So far one apparent oven - a base, but not the hard base excavated in previous ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/20/1999 
Entry: 17/06/99 Today we almost finished the work on the walls 503 and 497. We have removed several different types of fill and collapsed material and reached the Northern edge of the wall 497. It is understood that the Wall F.497 was collapsed on the northe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/30/1999 
Entry: Excavated wall collapse/slump ( 4753 ) in the SE corner of space 178. Post-Mellart collapse? Alongside the N-S wall ( F.467 ) this directly overlay a layer of grey material (no number yet ) which survives only under the wall slump. This material doesn’t r... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/29/1999 
Entry: This is a very brief entry, giving a quick run-down on what I have been doing on site, since returning from an r and r trip to Cyprus. I am now in Building 23, Space 178, with Richard, Adnan, and Nurcan. They are all huddled together around the southern... click here for more... 
 
Name: Anwen Cooper 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/4/1999 
Entry: The first day of digging. It was a bit difficult to begin because both of the people that had been excavating the area I was in were away. I started with some oven deposits making up F524 in space 178/ building 23. This represented the latest activity ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/1999 
Entry: Space 178. Building 23. An up-date on events of the past week or so: I’ve been continuing work in the north-east corner of the area, whilst Anwen, Nurcan, and Adnan, soldier on in their own respective corners. After excavating unit (4504), a substant... 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... 
 

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