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: 16833

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Today went very smoothly and the work went very well in Trench 5. Excavators are becoming familiar once more with the Catal recording system and samples (archive and flotation) are beginning to be taken more consistently. We now also have a sieve, that ar... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Finished documenting the cut unit 16811 of the pit unit 16810 and started tackling the supposed room fill unit 16833 and finding walls with Katie. These walls are still not easy to see but it seems as if we all get more used to them - or they to us. For s... click here for more... 
 
Name: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2008 
Entry: Finished drawing the cut that makes up unit 16811, and then we got our unit sheets and all the other paperwork sorted out, so those units are completely done. The next thing we did was start on unit 16833, which looks to be more fill from a cut into walls... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2008 
Entry: Yesterday was a pretty active day in our trench, we removed the rest of the fill unit 16833, working all together, and tried to identify the walls in the south and west. We finally succeeded, however, I think we would hardly ever known that there were wal... 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: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Today I worked again in unit 16833 taking down fill. For awhile there was some concern that we had taken out the top parts of a wall on the western side of the unit. Maxime and Jana did a lot of cleaning and I sieved the soil we were taking out. Later on ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Today there is one good and one bad message about the area Katie and me are working on. The good message is that after hours of scraping we identified four walls (features 5054, 5055, 5056 and 5057) which close space 341, the room whose fill we have been ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Connection breakdowns, meetings and football games have prevented me fro writing my diary for a few days. Today started like a real Monday (as Saturdays are virtual Mondays here). On Thursday JMR and KJK had taken down with unit 16833 what looked like... click here for more... 
 

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