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: 16800

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2008 
Entry: Today was a busy and slightly haphazard day. We began in Trench 5 in our various teams allocated to different areas for cleaning and excavation. During the day I helped provide some guidance on filling in the Unit Sheets and drawing conventions, though we... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2008 
Entry: Came back to Catal in the night of the 19th to the 20th after seven more months of travel and an exhausting summer term. Now, after two days, I start to get adjusted to the crowded yet mostly anonymous life here again. Yesterday was a bit of a chaotic ... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Infuriatingly, my last diary entry seems to have been mostly deleted. It contained a summary of the days events, a detailed expose of my hopes and fears and a rather fine limerick which I don't think I can recreate. Oh well. So today Sonya and I were s... click here for more... 
 
Name: MB 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Saturday 26.07.08 'Exciting' is the word to describe the work that we have done today in Trench 5 (West Mound). More and more walls of mudbrick emerge and spaces (maybe 3 or 4 already) are identified. The difficulty remains to define mudbrick walls. It... click here for more... 
 
Name: JHB 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2011 
Entry: I began today by excvating unit 15359, a step of room fill in room 342, along the western edge, that was remaining from 2009 excavations. This unit was excavated in 10 cm arbitrary levels and was approximately halfway completed. During excavation of 15359... click here for more... 
 

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