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: 345

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Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: I stopped writing diaries when I began staying out an extra three hours for the long shot, and am far enough behind that I won't be able to recount everything. We now have an elevation model stretching from T7 to the road just outside the Istanbul tren... 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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2008 
Entry: In the morning I was drawing space 340 an the adjacent walls/ butresses (F 5052, 5053/ 54, 2428, 2713). Then I was moved to space 345, where Ray has been working in the last days. I brushed the area in order to find the eastern wall, which was there indee... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2008 
Entry: Was enthused about how fast my diary entry from yesterday spread across the labs and how many people had ideas about the grave we did not recognise. However, Helen, dropping by today, said the hand was not human. That makes a lot easier. Did only docum... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/15/2009 
Entry: Today SO and I worked in space 345, which, after cleaning, received the unit number 18 331. It was not possible to find the wall at the eastern border of this unit, it seems to contain another unit that disturbes the wall. The same situation appeared at t... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/15/2009 
Entry: Today PTW and myself carried on lifting room fill 18314 in space 343. The fill is very similar in texture and appearance to the mudbrick walls that define it, making it extremely difficult to distinguish between between mudbrick and fill. The northern wal... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2009 
Entry: SO and I worked today again in space 345, Unit 18 331. After removing the dryed out soil there appeared a cluster of pottery. Some of the sherds even fit togeher. After photographing and drawing this cluster, which has the unit number 18 335, we removed t... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2009 
Entry: Today PTW and myself continued in space 343 excavating 18314. Beneath this rather sterile layer of compact rubble consisting of broken mudbrick, clumps of marly plaster, burnt mudbrick frags, we cut into a layer (which has not yet been assigned a unit num... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: Again, SO and I worked in space 345, unit number 18 331. We removed the rest of the unit and closed it (last drawing has the graphics number 09/230), and began to start with the new unit right beneath it, which has the number 18337. From this unit we re... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: Today PTW, JFB and myself continued in space 343 lifting room fill 18314. The lower coarse of mudbricks underlying the walls defining space 343 (F.5074, 5050=2425, 2426) continue to be exposed as we lift 18314. The fill 18314 contains very few inclusions ... click here for more... 
 

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