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: Lisa Yeomans 
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Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: This is the first diary entry of 2011. We are working in B97 which had been exposed by Mellart and with the northern part of the building truncated during his excavations. The northern part of the building was burnt during the same burning event that spre... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jack Martinez 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2012 
Entry: For the past three days I have been excavating the make up layer of the central floor in building 97, space 365, in the south shelter. I am excavating down to a plaster surface beneath the make up layer, which is clearly visible around the south edges of ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kristina Jonsson 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2012 
Entry: I have been here for a week now, and this is my first entry. I am working in building 97 in the South Area, and so far I have excavated a hearth (units 19695, 19697, part of F.3541) and a fire spot (F. 3545) together with Jack, and a pit (U. 20308, 20310)... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kristina Jonsson 
Team:  
Date: 7/16/2012 
Entry: In building 97 we are slowly moving forward.. The stratigraphy is extremely complex, since many layers don’t overlap but only "meet" where different structures connect (platforms, spaces etc.). We seem to finally be reaching a level where major parts of t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Malwina Brachmanska 
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Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: As sp.469 seemed to be earlier than the rest of the B.97 I change a place of digging and now whole team works on sp.365. We are strongly sure that central floor and the NE part are contemprorary. Hovewer the S part was earlier so we started from taking th... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jack Martinez 
Team:  
Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: Today we finished excavating the central floor make up layer in building 97, which took several days of work split between the four members of the pod. Because the make up layer consisted of several patchy layers of plaster and other material, we compound... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jack Martinez 
Team:  
Date: 7/18/2012 
Entry: Today we were planning to take down the southern wall of building 97, but as we were finishing the excavation of the make up layer in the southern dirty floor, unit 20331, we uncovered what appear to be two obsidian caches next to each other on the wester... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jack Martinez 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2012 
Entry: Today we began excavating the south wall of building 97, and although it is frustrating that we have to spend time removing the wall for safety purposes instead of continuing to excavate the floor, removing the plaster surface was satisfying work. I don't... click here for more... 
 
Name: Onur Yüksel 
Team:  
Date: 7/7/2012 
Entry: I started working on south area at B.97. I started digging on platform F.3457 in NE on sp. 365 of the building. My aim on digging this platform is that this building has more than one layer, because it was fixed more than one time. So I can reach the earl... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kristina J 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: Work is progressing in building 97. After having been quite certain that we would not finish it this season, we have actually begun to feel that maybe, maybe, it could happen.. We have now almost completely removed a make-up layer (U. 20341) that covers l... click here for more... 
 

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