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: 40

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Name: Burcu Tung 
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Date: 7/3/2012 
Entry: Its been a hectic couple of days, although it seems as though things are finally settling down. I’ve been here since the 19th of June, and it already feels like I’ve actually never left. Exploring those feelings are for another day though. The season ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2012 
Entry: This first diary entry sums up mine and Mateusz Dembowiak's first two weeks at Catalhöyük. I have kept a field diary in my notebook, but have not had time to enter anything into the database until now. June 26th-July 30th Mainly introduction days. We ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/11/2012 
Entry: The grave cluster in space 40 is getting more and more complex. In the southern part, we have a well preserved skeleton of a 5-7 year-old child (19484) in a secondary burial on top of an adolescent or young adult (19742). In the north part there is one se... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/15/2012 
Entry: The number of individuals keeps increasing in the grave cluster of space 40. Today three more skulls were found in less than two hours, which made the total number ten skulls plus one well defined and preserved skeleton without any skull. It is still hard... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/16/2012 
Entry: Yesterday the human remains team started their third bone collection campaign in space 40. We are coming to more and more conclusions concerning the stratigraphy, especially as he increasing number of graves means more physical connections between the dif... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: And so, one day after the point at which we finally thought that we had a caught hold of the stratigraphy of the space 40 grave cluster, the missing link turned up. Skeleton 19445 was buried close to the west wall, similar to the other graves which have a... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2012 
Entry: Today was my third entire day spent sitting with a thick bunch of unit sheets that are almost finished, but need to be completed. Although we keep writing all the time while excavating, there always seems to be one more mandatory field to fill out before ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rebecka Erntell 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: These last few days our pod has finally started to make visual changes to space 17/18/39/40. Josh from the human remains team has spent almost all his time with us, helping us to lift and document the last two skeletons, U20434 and U20419, in the grave cl... click here for more... 
 
Name: Eleni Asouti 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2012 
Entry: Wood and Charcoal Team consolidated diary entries We were called on site to examine the first in situ carbonized wood find for 2012: a charcoal spread that looked like burnt timber [20458], floating in what seemed to be building infill in space 1003. W... click here for more... 
 
Name: SM 
Team:  
Date: 7/2/2014 
Entry: Work in spaces 39, 40 and 502 have been going on now for four days. This year me and Kate constitute a little pod, working quite hard so far in a certain space of the North shelter, which apparently does not really breath. But we still do. Anyway, we star... click here for more... 
 

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