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: Jackie 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2012 
Entry: "Maybe it’s an afro pick!" joked Arne, as he made the combing motions with our newest beauty of an x-find. It never gets old, this midden (sieving the midden, though, is a completely different story.) Our midden seems to be giving us little daily gifts, ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 7/1/2013 
Entry: Work has begun in full blast since the teams arrived on the 25th and 26th of the month. New teams, new students, and a new season. And lots of babies, which is quite refreshing really. I arrived on site on the 19th of June - this is rather a late diar... click here for more... 
 
Name: AK 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2013 
Entry: Dear all my name is A. and I’m Çatalholic for many years. I realized that I’m addicted to Çatal just when I had to stay in my home country and I missed one season. The summertime that year was horrible – without silty dust in my ears, eyes and nose, cr... click here for more... 
 
Name: a.k. 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2013 
Entry: After 6 days of the hard work we have finally accomplished today exploration of all 3 walls restricting the Eastern section of Spaces 488/489. Now we are in a void just before the planed exploration of 2 inter-wall infills and lasting arbitrary layer of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Robert Bergman Carter 
Team:  
Date: 7/13/2015 
Entry: The midden in the north shelter is now gone, and after a long, cold shower, most of the midden has left me as well. The midden held several interesting finds, among them plenty of obsidian and bones. Based on percussion technique analysis and provinance o... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 6/23/2016 
Entry: Phasing the 4040 buildings has always been a bit of a nightmare for Shahina. Too much lateral excavation and too little in depth excavation done in an area where we were presumed to document a happy neighborhood ended up showing us that in fact the mound... click here for more... 
 

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