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: Numan Arslan 
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Date: 6/30/2015 
Entry: Finally I came in Çatalhöyük for my 8th excavation compaign on Sunday. It made me so excited and a little bit nervous. Because after every excavation season i feel so sad and wait for next season. I got 8th season in Çatal and it is an amazing part ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 7/6/2015 
Entry: The another excited day were started. We just focused on floors of building. Day by day we can excavate more and more infill and going deeper. But when we were looking our building end of excavation day, it was still same for infill. Anyway we are tr... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 7/11/2015 
Entry: Another excited day was started. We have been still excavating to understand of B.160s importance. Every day we remove lost of tons soils from building. Today we have exposed some strange feature on the north wall. Last week we have interpreted that f... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 7/12/2015 
Entry: We are going deeper day by day. Today we focused on building infill to reach floors. But it is really hard to excavate infill. Especially some part of infill is so compact. Anyway we have a hard working archaeologist, we will achieve it with them. Today... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 5/14/2016 
Entry: After cleaning, prepearing to site to excavate and lots of meeting ,we could start excavate at Çatalhöyük. The other things also are part of excavation process but i think more exciting thing is of course touching to layers to understanding to Çatalians l... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 5/27/2016 
Entry: 27.05.16 After couple of weeks finally we have touch the South Wall of B.118. When we were removing to infill U.22354, we could see to clearly to wall. Maybe Mellaart could be happy if he could see to that wall with all of feature in B.118. Anyway our ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 6/1/2016 
Entry: Finally we have reached to completely interior building features. After hardworking days, we have started to work tiny layer to layer. So removed to U.22300 and U.22324, we can see to some destroyed platforms, many pits, a nice oven, hearth, some s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan Arslan 
Team:  
Date: 6/12/2016 
Entry: Now the new excavation process is beginning. We are focus on some features which are in central room in sp.551. After removed to infill, main room features seem to be strange and they have irregular shape in that space. These are show to us as an aban... click here for more... 
 
Name: Cristina Belmonte 
Team:  
Date: 6/28/2016 
Entry: A few weeks ago I moved to the Sp 551, the main room of the building 160. For first time I’m not digging half parts of side rooms or remains of the seasons before. I like the feeling, because now is easy to have a general views of everything and try to se... click here for more... 
 
Name: Numan 
Team:  
Date: 6/30/2016 
Entry: Finally i have started to excavate to burial which is infill number U.32404. This has got a clear cut on floor surface. When we have removed all infill from building, we expected two burials in building. One of the burial might have been southwest corner ... click here for more... 
 

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