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: Allison Mickel 
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Date: 7/15/2012 
Entry: Today exemplified that archaeological research does not proceed in a linear fashion. We laid out a new trench, attempting to connect the stratigraphy and temporal sequence of the TP excavations from a few years ago, the Mellaart excavations from many yea... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2012 
Entry: TPC Trench 3 is finally turning up some things! We've removed the topsoil surface layer, as well as one layer underneath, and have uncovered some walls and a skeleton (feat. 3931)-- which, excitingly, doesn't seem to be Islamic like so, so many of the bur... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2012 
Entry: I liked the way Justine put it-- "the hurry-up speech" It's less of a speech per se than a gentle urging, but the basic sequence of events is when Ian listens to your archaeological frustrations regarding what's confusing or difficult about excavating ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/3/2013 
Entry: So this morning we finally finished taking out the (infamous) Roman wall. The really regular one, with the 40 cm square bricks (f. 3951). And I expected to feel a huge sense of relief-- this was one measurable, visible step toward getting TPC Trench 3 sec... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2013 
Entry: We have finally completed our removal of building 120-- the building in the south half of our trench which was built into a huge terracing cut [30229]. It feels really great, we've made noticeable change in our trench and are beginning to dig into the ma... click here for more... 
 
Name: Paul Eklöv Pettersson 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2015 
Entry: Last day of work in Catal. During this sseason I have encountered a statigraphy more complex than I ever seen before. To figure out the relations between the post-neolithic pits in TPC and the underlaying spaces have been a challenge, not to mention how t... click here for more... 
 

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