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: 16896

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2008 
Entry: Today we were able to make significant progress moving a great deal of spoil. Room fill 16896 is in the process of being removed. Once removed, we will be surrounded by walls! It seems that we have three buttresses which are similar in their arrangement t... click here for more... 
 
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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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Third attempt to write a diary. Lets hope its my last. In short - room fill 16896 with Dan and Monique. Discovered cluster, unit 16899, a number of broken ceramic sherds running into the western profile and apparently laying on a burnt deposit. This clust... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Depressing to start every diary entry with an apology for lack of entries, so I won't. Today TEB and MIB took down a room fill, 16896. We also found a cluster of pots which is now 16899 in the North-Western corner. We also sorted out the buttresses so we ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2008 
Entry: Now that we got down to the top levels of walls almost eveywhere in T5, more and more people in the trench get their individual space to dig. RBW and JJW, however, had to stay in today. Good to have AWH to tend the Total Station! The shading shed is reall... click here for more... 
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Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Today Eva and I were investigating the plaster along walls 5051 and 2424. It is pretty strange as it apears to slope inward on both profiles and therefore to undercut itself. PFB wants it to be a ceiling and has decided a meepmeep hole tom dug out in the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: An amazing day! Just met Martin Carver. Archaeology today was impressive. Just towards the end of the day JMR in room fill 16880 (space 340). DEL continued to go down in space 342 taking out 16896 - 57 buckets! Sieving with Ishmael has made a real diff... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: Today I continued excavating in space 342, mostly extracting the middle of the room fill with a mattock and shovel to leave the interesting edges free for trowelling tomorrow. There were a few fragments of bone and some near complete pots next to the butt... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2008 
Entry: Yesterday in the evening the 2007 DAI Reisestipendiaten arrived at Catalhoyuk, which is great fun for me, and I spent some hours after breakfast showing them around the mounds. We started the day with a thorough brushing of the whole trench 5 which is ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: First day of the last week, lots of problems solved today! As we got excellent results in defining the architectural pattern this year, we decided to not push ourselves down to floors etc. where we might hit a lot of interesting and time-consuming structu... click here for more... 
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