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:  
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: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: An amazing day! Just met Martin Carver. Archaeology today was impressive. Just towards the end of the day JMR in room fill 16880 (space 340). DEL continued to go down in space 342 taking out 16896 - 57 buckets! Sieving with Ishmael has made a real diff... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: Today I continued excavating in space 342, mostly extracting the middle of the room fill with a mattock and shovel to leave the interesting edges free for trowelling tomorrow. There were a few fragments of bone and some near complete pots next to the butt... 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... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2008 
Entry: Yesterday in the evening the 2007 DAI Reisestipendiaten arrived at Catalhoyuk, which is great fun for me, and I spent some hours after breakfast showing them around the mounds. We started the day with a thorough brushing of the whole trench 5 which is ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: First day of the last week, lots of problems solved today! As we got excellent results in defining the architectural pattern this year, we decided to not push ourselves down to floors etc. where we might hit a lot of interesting and time-consuming structu... click here for more... 
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Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: Continued excavating in space 342 today, particualrly around the buttress which goes into the profile (5062). Nothing particularly intersting came out, except a few larger pot sherds in the Northern part. We also cleaned te whole of the space back just b... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2008 
Entry: Today DEL started documentation in space 342 while I dug into 17229 to expose more of the newborn skeleton 16835. The skull, however, appeared to continue further W than the white plastery chunks that form the boundaries of the clayey soil of 17299. So I ... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2008 
Entry: Today I was mainly excavating the baby skeleton with Brenda. There are no legs but the rest is fine. Mostly I was thinking about bourdieu's concept of the habitus whilst excavating. The fact that the baby was a neonate really got me into ideas of accultur... click here for more... 
 

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