| Displaying Diary Entries for the year: 1999 |
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| Name: | Richard Turnbull |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/12/1999 |
| Entry: | Richard Turnbull Site Diary 12/4/99
First day on site where really cracked on with the digging. Working with Jez in the midden area. Excavated a block of upstanding midden material (4102) along southern edge of the midden area left behind from p... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Craig Cessford |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/13/1999 |
| Entry: | Craig 13-4-99
Have been working in south-west corner of space 117 so far. Started off by removing left over fragments from last year - baulk and part of ovens F.268 and F.290. Beneath these there are a series of earlier ovens - F.450, F.451, F.409. The... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Craig Cessford |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/14/1999 |
| Entry: | Craig 14-4-98
Continued removing ashy lenses/floors/trample in south-west of space 117. Finds included an articulated group of bones in a hollow ?cats paw 4137 X1, a group of clay ball fragments 4136 X1 and an obsidian cache (4138) lying in a hollow. (... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Craig Cessford |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/15/1999 |
| Entry: | Craig 15-4-99
Escaped the south-west corner and moved to the south-east. Discovered that way back in 1997 Roddy hadn’t properly bottomed post retrieval pit [2712]. He removed the main fill (2711) but not a lower plaster fill (4141) and a bone cluster i... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Charlie Newman |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/15/1999 |
| Entry: | CHARLIE NEWMAN 15/04/99
Since my arrival ten days ago I have had to take absorb many new experiences and expectations. Firstly the culture aspect, which... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Peter Boyer |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/15/1999 |
| Entry: | Peter Boyer 15th April 1999
Well here it is my first diary entry for 1999. We've been working on site for a week now though the first few days were spent just cleaning the excavation areas in the Mellaart area, now renamed the South area due to some t... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Charlie Newman |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/18/1999 |
| Entry: | Charlie Newman 18/04/99
Yesterday and today Khan and I continued lifting Mellaarts backfill. So far we have encountered a post-retrieval pit in the eastern wall, a possible platform w... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Jez Taylor |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/18/1999 |
| Entry: | Jez Taylor 18/04/1999
This morning , I began excavating a further , approx. 0.10m. spit , within midden deposit 4121 , in the SE. corner of Space 115. We’ve noted over the past week , that this area has produced a slightly higher percentage of bone , in... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Richard Turnbull |
| Team: | Çatal |
| Date: | 4/16/1999 |
| Entry: | Richard Turnbull 16/4/99
Them past few days I have been digging in the midden area ( space 115 ) with Jez. So far all the midden material we have excavated has been taken out as one unit ( 4121 ). Some variation within the unit; towards the western en... click here for more... |
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| Name: | Shahina Farid |
| Team: | Field Director |
| Date: | 4/17/1999 |
| Entry: | SHAHINA 17/4/99
We’ve just completed our first full week of excavation of the 6 month season with all personnel but as I’ve been here since the 30th March I thought I would recap on events so far and then discuss the excavation area and strategy.
Kh... click here for more... |
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