Displaying Diary Entries for Unit: 15350 |
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Name: | JMR |
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Date: | 7/18/2011 |
Entry: | We finished removing the top soil (15345) today, brushed and fotographed the trench extension afterwards. Already, archaeological contexts start appearing. Over Sp.342, directly on the trench section, a cluster of human bones (F.3340) was found, excavated... click here for more... |
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Name: | JFB |
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Date: | 7/19/2011 |
Entry: | Today I continuted to work on unit 15349 with DLG in the northwest corner extension of the trench. It was difficult to get going on our area, as there were many people needing and using the 2 sieves that we had set up. I ended up moving to the southwest c... click here for more... |
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Name: | JMR |
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Date: | 7/19/2011 |
Entry: | We are moving pleasingly fast in the trench extension of Trench 5. The only limiting factor to the speed of the excavation is the soil sieving, so we are currently working on three sieves.
JHB and RHB finished U.15351 over Space 454. They went down to th... click here for more... |
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Name: | HLS |
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Date: | 7/19/2011 |
Entry: | Today was the third day of excavation this season and we have continued to remove large amounts of soil from the extended area of Trench 5. I was working on Unit 15350 with 3 others. Work has been held up by the lack of sieves, originally only the one, bu... click here for more... |
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Name: | JMR |
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Date: | 7/20/2011 |
Entry: | DLG and PTW finished U.15349, which differs from the other topsoil layers on roughly the same level (15350, 15351) because it contains building materials such as dark grey brick, plaster, lime, burnt red brick and lumps of pale yellow clay. Most of these ... click here for more... |
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Name: | CMB |
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Date: | 7/23/2011 |
Entry: | We have continued to down the topsoil of unit 15357 (about 20cm down). Since the beginning of the excavation we have down about 60-70cm in this unit and we follow the “natural” slop. Near to the burial area (unit 15346), I noted several perturbations like... click here for more... |
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Name: | DKK |
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Date: | 7/23/2011 |
Entry: | This is my first time at Catalhöyük, and this is my first diary entry of the season.
Today, we have begun our second week of excavating. We have been expanding the square of trench 5 on the west mound in the south-western and western corner whilst waitin... click here for more... |
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