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: 15306

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Name: Raymond Benjamin Whitlow 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/8/2007 
Entry: Day 11 First job this morning was to sketch, photo, and record the position of Unit 15306, fill for a possible pit or grave. Sketching didn’t take too long, as it was a method I was already familiar with, and I was able to get started excavating the un... click here for more... 
 
Name: Katie Jenene Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/8/2007 
Entry: Today Ros and I finished cleaning out the animal burrow that we started yesterday (unit 15300). I ended up sketching it while Ros sorted the finds, and the finished drawing looks like some sort of weird intestinal track, or the streets of Santa Fe, New Me... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/8/2007 
Entry: As agreed upon yesterday, the Selcuk team members now work on their own, supported by Scott who will be out with us during the next two weeks. Only now I realized how much better things work out in the EC structures if I can really be with our team and ha... click here for more... 
Sketch: Click here to open in a new window
 
Name: Raymond Benjamin Whitlow 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/9/2007 
Entry: Day 12 I am Captain Ahab, and the bottom of unit 15306 is my white whale. Or at least that’s what it felt like this morning, when Katie and I were trying to remove the fill in the pit. In the hours before breakfast Katie tried to follow N & W edge o... click here for more... 
 
Name: Raymond Benjamin Whitlow 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/10/2007 
Entry: Day 13 We closed out unit 15306 today after removing the fill on the southern end. After photographing and finished the unit sheets we had Naomi photo the unit and took coords for Frank’s daily sketch. While Katie and I prepped the paper for the plan f... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naomi Christie 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/10/2007 
Entry: 7th July Photos U13751- After removal of mud brick trench lining U14213 -Katy and Ros's area on North wall U14267- Skeleton U14270 - Tom and Helen's burrow/pit U14271 - Cut of pit U14272 - The pit Ray and I dug U15104 - Floor in T7 8th July Pho... click here for more... 
 
Name: Katie Jenene Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/10/2007 
Entry: Yesterday I started a diary entry, and unfortunately the power went out before I could get it posted. It is saved on a different computer, so I will be posting this and then later when I can get to the computer, I'll enter the other one. Ok. Today was ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Katie Jenene Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/9/2007 
Entry: Today we had some interesting news which has affected how we will continue excavating. There is concern that we have some Islamic burials, so for now, we will be trying to avoid excavating later burials on site and instead work around them to try and get ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Raymond Benjamin Whitlow 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/11/2007 
Entry: Day 14 Long day today. Most of the day was spent trying to determine where the mudbrick walls were, so Eva and Frank spent most of the day in our section trying to trace wall through the clump of rodent holes and the few scattered burials still in Trench... click here for more... 
Sketch: Click here to open in a new window
 
Name: Katie Jenene Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/11/2007 
Entry: Today was a fairly productive day in terms of figuring out what was going on with some of the wall situation both in the pit (15305, 15306) and the area beyond to the east and west. Ray and I started out by taking off some of the top layer of the northern... click here for more... 
 

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