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: 13702

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Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: Today, we continued surface scraping work on the two 10mx10m trenches we opened on July 20th after they had been preliminarily staked out for us by the surveyor team. Hopefully the surveyors will provide us with the defintite grid tomorrow morning so we c... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: Today was our second day on site, still continue in scraping Trench A and B at the West Mound. I worked in trench A, where we remove the first 10 cm of the topsoil (13701). In this layer there was lots of unstartified potsherds and obsidian. In the southe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/23/2006 
Entry: S***, my diary entry is gone, maybe I forgot to save it? Who knows.. Now I will start another one. Today we finished removing the second layer of the topsoil to a depth of at least 30cm in the northern part (13702) of Trench 5 at the West Mound. After... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/23/2006 
Entry: With the exception of Helen who was sick today, we worked with the same team as yesterday. It was very hot and the wind kept changing its direction after lunch, causing us trouble with the dust. Besdes, we got a set of new small hoes (capa) and two umbrel... click here for more... 
 
Name: Esra Nigar Irmak 
Team: West-Thrace 
Date: 7/23/2006 
Entry: Sabah saat 7 de kazi alanina gittigimde ilk olarak bati catal hoyuk 5 ve 6 acmalarinin fotograflarini cektim. Dunde calistigim 13702 nolu unitte calismaya basladim. Benimle birlikte dun calisan ekibe Nisha ve isci Ismail de katildi. Dun biraktigimiz yerde... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoph Skowranek Doru 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/24/2006 
Entry: Today we started working at 6 am, it was great! Cool outside and not so much people in the morning. But I heared at lunch that we woke up some people by slamming doors and so on, wondering cause I heard not so many slammed doors and we were quiet in the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naoise Mac Sweeney 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/24/2006 
Entry: After an early start we finished cleaning back area 5/unit 13702 for photography and planning. Following this we cleared the eastern half of area 5 - unit 13703 - which falls downslope to the edge of the mound. Tom and I also practised our Total Sta... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naoise Mac Sweeney 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/24/2006 
Entry: We started the morning clearing 13700 for a photo - satisfying to see it all cleaned up. Some trouble setting up the total station in the after breakfast period... In the end, we weren't too far off, but I guess it will take us amateurs a bit of time to g... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/24/2006 
Entry: Today, we started at 6 o'clock in order to use the cooler morning hours which did not prove to be a huge success; rather, we lost almost two hours in long discussions about if and what and when to take photographs, to get the Total Station going (Tom and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Esra Nigar Irmak 
Team: West-Thrace 
Date: 7/24/2006 
Entry: saat 06 da kazi alanina gidilip ise baslandi. Once fotograf cekimi icin transe 5 ve altinin supurulup temizlenmesi calismalari yapildi. Ben fotograf cekimi icin gerekli olan olculerin beyaz tahtanin alimi icin kazi evine dondum. Temizlenen a ve b transele... click here for more... 
 

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