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: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/21/1997 
Entry: Thursday 21 August, 1997 Peggy: finish cleaning grave F. 154. Photo. Draw it. Its feet and lower legs are under the main N-S baulk. Peter comes to take a DNA sample. Now it's ready for removal. On the south side of F. 154 Anne-Marie is cleaning the sur... click here for more... 
 
Name: Mira Stevanovic 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/17/1997 
Entry: 17 (S): New Units: 2220, 2221, 2222, 2223, 2224, 2225, 2226, 2227. Old units: Unit 2211/2212/Feature 151 This burial was cleaned and most of the skeleton has been exposed. The cleaning is not finished jet. Unit 2224 We started scraping of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Mira Stevanovic 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/18/1997 
Entry: 18 (M): New Units: 2228, 2229, 2230, 2231. Old Units: Unit 2224 In this unit we finished a detailed drawing of the situation on the surface. It was drawn in scale 1:10. This drawing included the outside floors of space 89 and the burned area in the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Mira Stevanovic 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/19/1997 
Entry: 19 (Tu): New Units: 2232, 2233. Old Units: New Units: Unit 2232/Feature 152 is a skeleton This burial features a child skeleton, which is well preserved and from which we’ll be taking some bones for DNA analysis. This burial is the richest so far... click here for more... 
 
Name: Mira Stevanovic 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/27/1997 
Entry: 21 (Th): New Units: 2239, 2240, 2241, 2242, 2243, 2244, 2245, 2250, Old Units: New Units: 2250- A new unit number was assigned to a first internal separated space in the room/space 86. This unit is located in the SW corner of space 86 and is defied... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/19/1997 
Entry: Now everything is changed! Sonya and Jason are better. Ayse is sick! As Anne-Marie finishes o.s.4 in the "pit" in SE corner of space 86 (unit 2229) and we can see the N-S cross-section, it becomes doubtful that this is a pit at all. We have been treating... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/14/1997 
Entry: By the end of today Mira and I were a bit discouraged and depressed that perhaps we were actually excavating below the floor which had already been eroded. Shahina suggested a little mini-sondage. So we took her advice and dug a 10 x 10 cm sondage against... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/16/1997 
Entry: Today we finished excavating the first arbitrary level of building fill in space 86. Ivan draws it (97/201). Start excavating second arbitrary level of building fill in space 86 (except SE corner), now that we know (see last Thurs) that the wall plaster... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 7/31/1999 
Entry: Saturday July 31 Julie and John Swogger arrived today looking disgustingly fresh after taking the overnight bust from Istanbul. Floor and Platforms Today we started in on the destruction - rather excavation - of our beautiful house: space 86. Strati... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/1/1999 
Entry: Sunday 1 August 1999 Our 3 workers are making bricks for the Experimental house Floor and Platforms Feature 173: Sonya finishes taking off latest floor in SW quadrant (3593). She leaves the edge of the platform where plaster is built up until we see... click here for more... 
 

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