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: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/11/2006 
Entry: Yesterday was a hard day, but we managed to get all the graves and skeletons documented and out, especially Scott was a great help these days. In Trench 5, grave 2406 and 2409 were finished. Under the fill 13771 of the first, we uncovered yet another w... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ben Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/11/2007 
Entry: Ok, so today worked in the floor / structural collapse / burnt house fill, etc. area in space 310. Most of today was spent reducing the overall level in uneven areas and trying to figure out if we had structural collapse or a floor. Most of us, includin... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/11/2007 
Entry: Been digging a couple of foundation trenches for the past week or so and finished trenches 3 and 6. To dig foundation trench 14 we have had to remove the block of strat left by the late foundation trench and the 2005 limit of excavation just to the west o... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/11/2007 
Entry: Tried the next old computer today to get my floppy-saved diary of the day before yesterday into the database, but it says that the floppy is not in the right format. Why then does it work fine with my Windows 98 laptop? Sarah is still hatching hopes she c... click here for more... 
 
Name: Katie Jenene Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/15/2007 
Entry: This entry covers quite a few days, since I have been sick and not able to do much on site. Last Wednesday after doing my diary entry, I went and spoke to Ingmar about drawing some pottery. I managed to only do one pot sherd in the time I had left dur... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/15/2007 
Entry: Yesterday I finished working on the presentation I am about to give on Wednesday until 12.30 in the morning, so I was the last one to bed for the first time on this excavation. Now I have to catch up with the backlog of diary. The fact that my travel mate... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2008 
Entry: Now that we got down to the top levels of walls almost eveywhere in T5, more and more people in the trench get their individual space to dig. RBW and JJW, however, had to stay in today. Good to have AWH to tend the Total Station! The shading shed is reall... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Another great day at T5! Weather was pleasant, archaeology fun. AWH and JJW continued 16898 in space 310. There is a very interesting cluster of big potsherds (unit 17208) abutting the plaster 13726 at the E wall 2427. looks as if people have swept stu... click here for more... 
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Name: JJW 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Excellent day today. Haven't written for two days on account of doing nothing but lie in bed feeling dizzy and pot washing. I hate doing nothing, so loved being back on site again today. Especially as the site looks better and better as the days go on. I ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: Everbody seemed a bit tired today, even the lovely finds (e.g. a bead from unit 16880 continued by JMR - space 340) and a potstand from unit 16898 (space 310, continued by AWH) couldn't make us sing and dance in the trench. Work progressed much faster now... click here for more... 
 

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