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.
 
Displaying Diary Entries for Space: 87

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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... 
 
Name: Ruth Tringham 
Team: Bach 
Date: 8/2/1999 
Entry: Monday August 2, 1999 2 workers are making bricks, 1 is on duty at the shelter Roger and Wendy are back Floor and Platforms Strategy to re cord profiles of floors: the main profiles through the floors in the N-S and E-W control baulks will be reco... click here for more... 
 
Name: HSL 
Team:  
Date: 7/16/2008 
Entry: First diary entry of the season, which feels a little odd having come from the West Mound tradition of daily diary entries. Different mentality being in the lab this year. Better in many respects, doing things I love, but still suffering the occasional la... click here for more... 
 
Name: Erin Baxter 
Team:  
Date: 7/14/2012 
Entry: Space 87 (excavated in 2002 - eastern portion) Re-tasked to the North Shelter on Tuesday, 10/7. Burcu assigned Francesca and me to Space 87, the eastern 1/3 of which had been previously excavated to its platform. We were asked to remove a porti... click here for more... 
 
Name: Susan Hyden 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: I have been excavating some interesting Neolithic burials in the North area this season. First an infant in a basket (F.1014) which was buried together with an older individual (F.3629) in space 87. Both were found by the Bach team ten years ago after the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Erin Baxter 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2012 
Entry: I have attended many a BBQ. They are rather filling affairs with baby back ribs, steaks, briscuit, pigs-feet, and grease dribbling from the mouth to the elbows. The end result is a strong inclination for a toothpick and an intractable wish for a slow, ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Aroa García Suárez 
Team:  
Date: 6/30/2013 
Entry: Today I started the excavation of Building 114 (Space 87). As a micromorphologist, my goal is to have the maximum stratigraphical control over the deposits being excavated, allowing for even micro-layers (e.g. below 0.5cm thickness) to be excavated and do... 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... 
 

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