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: 15152

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Name: JMR 
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Date: 8/3/2010 
Entry: Third day of excavation in West Trench 5 for this year. On 1/8 we started by cleaning the eastern part of the trench, where sandbags had already been taken out. The western part, Spaces 343, 342 and 310 still have sandbags in them. After cleaning, EM... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2010 
Entry: JFB, BOD and XHB finished excavating burial F.3317 which will be drawn tomorrow. Burial F.3316, its extensions defined by BOD through scraping (15146) turned out to be partially under F.3317 and can therefore only be started after 3317 is removed. The ... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2010 
Entry: Diary entry of 03.08.2010 Today SCS and I excavated and finished Unit 15139 in Space 341. This roomfill looks very heterogeneous, interesting are especially the huge chunks of burned and unburned clay which seem to gather next to the walls/buttresses.... click here for more... 
 
Name: SCS 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2010 
Entry: Excavater's log, Catal Höyük Day 4, written on paper the 3rd August 2010: After closing unit 15139 we continue with our mission to explore space 341. The excavation of the layer unit 15139 proved to be an interesting learning experience. Green concernin... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2010 
Entry: Today I went on digging unit 15152 in space 341. The walls 5055 and 5056 are very disturbed by animal burrows, what makes the search for the earlier phases of the wall slightly more difficult. In the South - East - corner, where a mudbrick is looking i... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2010 
Entry: Diary entry for 5/8/2010 JFB finished documenting and taking out burial F.3317 and moved over to the next one, F.3318. Sor far, the upper body of 3318 is exposed and turned out to be very well preserved. It might be possible that the lower body is not ... click here for more... 
 

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