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: 16861

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Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2008 
Entry: (A note to other west mounders who've been having this problem: If you go to Unit/Feature/Space number fields without saving the record, you'll lose anything you've typed in the diary field since Access last automatically saved). Today was the first d... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2008 
Entry: Today Katie and me finished the annoying drawing by just drawing everything we saw without bothering what it would mean. Then we tackeled the pit 16861 together with Maxime, in order to remove it and then be able to move over to the fills of spaces 340 an... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2008 
Entry: Despite our efforts to lift the disturbance 16861, Jana, Maxim and Katy unveiled a new feature. Another grave! I think some members of the Selcuk team will be returning to tackle this grave in order to allow us to excavate the room fills of spaces 340 and... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2008 
Entry: Annoying day today. The pit which was 'defined' yesterday had to be hastily undefined and a new arbitrary layer established, 16879. Sonya, Tom and I had a bit of a go at it which worked out some frustration but the very diffuse boundaries of any possible ... click here for more... 
 
Name: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2008 
Entry: Today Jana and I made more corrections on our drawing of the wall section. Hopefully this will better reflect what we see in that area, and then as more gets excavated, the situation will become more clarified. Unfortunately, Peter has been sick today, so... click here for more... 
 
Name: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2008 
Entry: Today I worked with both Jana and Maxime to try and define the borders of the disturbance labeled as unit 16861. One of the main goals of doing this was to try and outline the edges and corners of the walls of spaces 340 and 341. I worked mainly near the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2008 
Entry: Smooth workflow today. Maxime, Katie and me tried to find the borders of the disturbed area 16861, which turned out to be much larger than we thought. Its borders are not visible everywhere, but I think we got it quite well by feeling where the soil would... click here for more... 
 
Name: ramazan gunduz 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2008 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2008 
Entry: Today and yesterday were really good days out in the trench, despite PFB still being slightly ill, UY hitting his head on the sieve installation, and a few minor hand injuries while troweling ferociously. The trench looks more straightforward each day as ... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2008 
Entry: Another fun day in T5, as more and more features are being peeled out of their surrounding soil. Monique joined us for interwieving us on our way of excavating and documenting until breakfast. AWH and JJW finished documenting the pit 16889 and then joi... click here for more... 
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