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: 3300

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Name: Naomi Hamilton 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/17/1998 
Entry: 17th August. Today I realised how ill I had been over the past few days, as I felt well! What a difference it makes in approaching the archaeology. However, all is not solved yet. Not only was much of the space dug out of phase or in partial units las... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naomi Hamilton 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/18/1998 
Entry: 18th August. Well, I removed the marl as 3386, and as usual it turned into two layers! - the top one is 3386, which overlies a brown deposit over a lower marl/plaster layer which may be the ultimate core of the whole feature. It may join with the big ch... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naomi Hamilton 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/19/1998 
Entry: 19th August. It never is as simple as it seems. The lower chunk of 3394 turned out to curve down to the north, with 3300 running underneath as well as up the side, so this does seem to be part of 3394, not a separate brickette of the same matrix. The l... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naomi Hamilton 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/24/1998 
Entry: 24th August. Extremely hot, difficult to keep going. I wanted to work again at 5pm but was too exhausted. F279 is still there - it is disappearing, but not fast enough for my liking. Today I removed the grey bricky stuff 3648 into which the vertical w... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naomi Hamilton 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/25/1998 
Entry: 25th August. It's still there - but dwindling. I thought I'd sorted out what to do, but F279 is full of surprises. I started by taking off a small but high, moulded bricky deposit, 3657? - at the west. It came down onto a midden-type deposit with micr... click here for more... 
 

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