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: Aldo Busacca 
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Date: 7/20/2014 
Entry: Today has been the third day since we started removing the massive infill of Sp. 504. Hard work, as expected. Two days ago, we felt excited by the new task and full of energy, and we removed almost 3.5 tons of soil! It was pehaps too much. At the end of t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Allison Mickel 
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Date: 7/13/2015 
Entry: After two weeks of removing infill, we are finally near the floor of B. 131! We spent some time chasing a phantom surface that appeared clear in the section left by Aldo and Agata last year, but it turned out just to be a very clear and discrete layer of... click here for more... 
 
Name: arek 
Team:  
Date: 6/2/2017 
Entry: The value of the talk at Catal’ • Few days ago I had opportunity to have a nice talk with Sean who hosted before Scott in the lithic-lab. Scot was interested in seeing the obsidian blades (U.23034) that were found within the cache (F. 8359) in B.131 (Sp.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kevin Kay 
Team:  
Date: 6/5/2017 
Entry: Finally closed unit (23084) that subsumes all the later layers of pre-construction deposition in the side-room of B.131. Re. the history of the space: (23084) comprises all deposits (except one possible burial) above the collapsed W wall of B.139. Thi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ahmed Kzzo 
Team:  
Date: 6/9/2017 
Entry: I arrived at ?atalhoyuk on April 29. Before ?atalhoyuk, I used to excavate in Ebla in Syria. The two sites belong to different periods. But these two sites became symbolic for the modern states of Syri, and Turkey. Actually, I did not feel like a strange... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jovana Tripkovic 
Team:  
Date: 5/3/2017 
Entry: First impressions Even though it came as a surprise the chance to excavate Catalhoyuk came both as a priviledge and a pleasure, even more because of 2017 being the last opportunity to do so. I would have thought it not difficult excavation-wise if this... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jovana Tripkovic 
Team:  
Date: 6/1/2017 
Entry: New people/New strategies Today Cristina Belmonte was transfered from the South Area to the building 131! She is exceptionally energetic and charismatic person, not to mention a veteran contract archaeologist that has the decisivness and boldness w... click here for more... 
 

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