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: Althea Asaro 
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Date: 7/10/2012 
Entry: Today we excavated Unit 19817 in the South Shelter in building 89, space 379. This unit is primarily room fill with a plaster structure in the south west side of the unit. It appears to be either a collapse, or perhaps a bin. The plaster structure also... click here for more... 
 
Name: Elisa Biancifiori 
Team:  
Date: 7/10/2012 
Entry: Today we excavated the unit 19817, in the South shelter, space 379, building 89. 
 
Name: Althea Asaro 
Team:  
Date: 7/15/2012 
Entry: We are currently still excavating the west wall of building 89, space 379. Today we found the interface layer between the south and north side layers of the wall. On the north side of the wall the current layer we have uncovered is a very reddish clay b... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nicola Nativo 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2012 
Entry: Saturday July 21. Well, this is my first diary entry and I hope it will be clear enough. The UC Merced team and I have been digging building 89 in the south shelter since summer 2011. Lately we have finally reached some interesting features very close to... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nicola Nativo 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2012 
Entry: This post is about Building 89 in space 379, south shelter, in the 9th ring of hell. Today we finished digging unit 19829 and finally exposed a new layer that lays exactly in between the northern platform and southern bench. We suppose this is the last ro... click here for more... 
 
Name: Chiara Mottolese. Nicola Lercari 
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Date: 7/10/2013 
Entry: In the heat of these first days of July 2013 the Duke University team (former UC Merced) started excavating Building 89 in the South Area after 1 year break. At a glance the building seemed quite well conserved from last season even though the plaster alo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Matteo Pilati 
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Date: 7/13/2013 
Entry: There is an ambiguous difference between interpreting a stratigraphic sequence and trying to understand past events. Single context method and Harris-matrix empower us with an analytic tool, which gives a structure to our work, we can share with each othe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nicola Lercari 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2013 
Entry: Ecce homo! It’s been about a week since a possibly first inhabitant of Building 89 (skeleton 19887) has been exposed. With the help of human remain specialists our team started analyzing and then removing this bundle of skull, vertebrae, bones that has be... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nicola Lercari 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2013 
Entry: Since Monday July 22 I have been working on a full review of all the 3D models that have been generated in Building 89 using the technique of image-based modeling. This process is due to a technological advancement in Agisoft Photoscan, the software we ha... click here for more... 
 
Name: Katie Mccusker 
Team:  
Date: 7/8/2014 
Entry: Today in B. 89 we excavated, surprise, another layer of floor. We continue to search for the relationships between our maze of overlapping floors. We now have a clear profile view of the floors however, as a section of the main platform on the east side ... click here for more... 
 

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