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 the year: 2004

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Name: Richard May 
Team: IT 
Date: 6/29/2004 
Entry: This is my first diary entry and the first diary entry on the new SQL Server system rather than on the old inidividual Access Data Forms. Today is Tuesday. I arrived on Friday and started working properly on Saturday. The server was rescued from its ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2004 
Entry: first dairy entry of the 2004 season Richard had already started the exavation when I arrived. The area seemed very clean although much disturbed by later activityç the greek team had already removed the upper sequences within structure 10 this in 1... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2004 
Entry: First entry of the season. I'm working in the southern end of the opened portion of the 4040 area. For the past few days we have been concentrating on the western part of this area where the level of the archaeological deposits are higher and taking of ar... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2004 
Entry: Working in the northern end of the reopened part of the 4040 area. At the moment i'm concentrating on the westerb side of the area where the archaeological deposits are higher and a complete building seems to be contained within the confines of the 10mete... click here for more... 
 
Name: Gareth Chaffey 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2004 
Entry: This is my first diary entry, and despite writing my own daily, the first time that i have sat down to actually write on this programme. Thought that it was about time i did so as a lot has happened in the last week. So here goes..... As of today i hav... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/4/2004 
Entry: Roddy has pretty well covered what I've got up to so far - apart from the few ephemeral hearth? deposits and eroded floor layers I've been removing the platform extension F.1317 which was releeased by the excavation of floor (8086). F.1317 wasn't in great... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/5/2004 
Entry: diary entry 1 this is a few days overdue, but i will try and include as much as i can remember... My first day digging at Çatalhöyük was for me very much reminding myself about how to do archaeology! This went fairly smoothly, i removed a layer or possib... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/5/2004 
Entry: Jason came up this morning and did the first shot of building 10 in it's entirety since we began excavating this year. Removed a narrow strip of horizontal plaster with red pigment on the surface (10615) that lay along the E.edge of F.1314 & F.1317. This... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/6/2004 
Entry: Three days on since my last entry (i think?) Anyway things seem to be going well in building 10. Lots of contexts hav been removedç mostly floors below the platforms (phisically below). It looks like Platform F1307 may be released first as the we are... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/7/2004 
Entry: Rather humid day under the shelter. What stated as a bit of a flap ended fine as we are about the shift some of the platforms or at least eat into them. It appears that what was considerd to be the the east wall and part of the south and north walls of... click here for more... 
 

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