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: 13726

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Name: Esra Nigar Irmak 
Team: West-Thrace 
Date: 7/29/2006 
Entry: bugun 6 nolu transenin kuzey batisindaki 13802 nolu uniteki iskeletin kaldirilmasindan sonra genel transe derinliginden 7 cm kadar yuksekte duran 2*2 metrelik bir alani dikkatli sekilde mala kazmaya basladim. Yanimda iscilerden mustafa ve serkan ile kazi ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/31/2006 
Entry: Team: everybody minus Ezra and Helen plus Jonathan and Catriona. Three members of the Selcuk team (Zeliha, Vildan, Nesime) joined us today, and the tent over trench 6 was put up today to provide shelter when the burials there are taken out. Weather: pret... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/2/2006 
Entry: Team: all in the morning, Tom and Helen at the dighouse after lunch, Jonathan and Catriona Weather: very hot and no wind, good to have the shelter In Trench 5, Ezra, Gulgun, Gulay and Hanife were engaged in taking off the stones 13722 and thus exposed... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/8/2006 
Entry: Team: is there one? Weather: not as hot as during the last days Totalstationci: Sedef Trench 5: Vildan did a great job exposing the skeleton 13784 in grave 2406 today, using unit 13771 for the grave fill. It has been photographed and is ready for ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/9/2006 
Entry: Weather: pretty hot, and we worked outside until 6 o'clock to manage the graves With Sedef at the Total Station and Nejat mainly in photography, Zeliha finished excavating grave 2404 and we obtained a date for it (13780) and its disturbance (13781). Vi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Thomas Birch 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/4/2007 
Entry: Today was possibly the worse in day of my life as an archaeologist. Whats happened to my diary entry?Entered By: TEB 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Another great day at T5! Weather was pleasant, archaeology fun. AWH and JJW continued 16898 in space 310. There is a very interesting cluster of big potsherds (unit 17208) abutting the plaster 13726 at the E wall 2427. looks as if people have swept stu... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/15/2008 
Entry: My last day in Catal for this year, most of the team has left already. The last few days were mainly spent by documentation and drawing, except in space 310. After going deeper with unit 17214, a older layer of plaster (unit 17249) underlying 13726 wa... click here for more... 
 

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