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 Unit: 10814

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Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/14/2004 
Entry: Excavation proceeded in both spaces 231and 112. In space 231 a second spit of the sub floor construction fill was excavated - unit 10821 which is identical to unit 10819 above. The lower limit of the unit is arbitrary. Like 10819 unit 10821 contained ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/17/2004 
Entry: relatively few new developments took place in space 112 during this day. In the southwest of the extant part of space 112 Belize (BBT) continued the removal of the lowermost fill unit (unit 10823) in post retrieval pit unit 10817. This feature was des... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/2004 
Entry: The excavation of the burial feature 1702 (cut 10811, fill 10812, skeletons10813 and 10814) was continued by the same group of the human remains team. It seems a third individual was encountered in the burial feature, but no skeleton unit has been ass... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Two types of activities took place in space 112 on this day. First, the human remains team continued excavating the large burial feature f.1702. Second, I continued the investigation and documentation of the outer walls of space 112. Some spectacular d... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/2004 
Entry: The following activities took place in Space 112. Marin Pilloud continued working on the burial 1702, and lifted most of skeleton 10829. With these skeleton a large number of beads were found in the general area of the chest and the skull. Some of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/21/2004 
Entry: In the southern part of space 112 the excavation of the follwing activities took place. The post retrieval pit feature 1705 was further investigated. It became clear that the skull at the bottom of the pit was in fact located on top of and within the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2004 
Entry: Work continued on burial feature 1710. The work was done by Marin Pilloud and myself. The skeleton 10813 was further cleaned, photographed and documented. Given that the articulation of the skeleton is rather complicated this took a considerable amount of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda During 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/24/2004 
Entry: Today we finally managed to lift skeleton 10813 (feature 1709) in space 112. Some interesting developments occured during the removal of this skeleton. Three flint objects had been visible below the right tibia of skeleton 10813 for some time, but after r... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda Düring 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/25/2004 
Entry: In the south central part of space 112 work continued on skeleton 10814, which was assigned an arbitrary cut (unit 10836) and an arbitrary fill (unit 10837) and a feature number (f. 1711). The skeleton was cleaned and drawn by Marin Pilloud (drawing 004/9... click here for more... 
 
Name: Bleda Düring 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/26/2004 
Entry: there are some remarkable developments in the southern part of space 112. In the human remains lab a refit could be made between the mandible of skeleton 10814 found in burial f1711 and the skull 10834 found in post retrieval pit 1705 (futher loose tee... click here for more... 
 

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