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: 2005

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Name: Richard May 
Team: IT 
Date: 7/3/2005 
Entry: Evening all, Having set up the basic system now I thought I ought to place the first entry in the diary for 2005. Arrived Friday afternoon but didn't really get going until yesterday (Saturday). Got some of the basics up and running, ie the server,... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/8/2005 
Entry: This is my first diary entry of the season, the task for this year is to remove all the byzantine/roman graves and other features truncating the neolithic archaeology and expose the final phase of use in each of the buildings. The area reopened covers 40x... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/8/2005 
Entry: First diary entry of 2005 season. The south summit shelter appears to work very well at protecting the archaeology, the area, building 44 just needed a bit of a sweep and we could begin again. Began digging on Wednesday and started removing some of the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/9/2005 
Entry: Hello again diary! Today was the second excavation day. By the end of Thursday we scraped the surface and identified walls that were exposed in 2003/ I took over the aea named in 2003 spaces 93 and 94. But it seems now that they are in fact one space a... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/9/2005 
Entry: The sampling strategy has been sorted now and we don’t have to wait for the results from the specialists so I appologise for my rant yesterday. On site we had a susseful day and got a lot done having removed most of the building fill in space 98. We came ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/10/2005 
Entry: The excavation of the housefill that contains the horns cluster 10281 will take a while since the bone specialists found that there is a skull there as well and it seems to have plaster on it. Reasonably enough we kind of have to give them the area to p... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/10/2005 
Entry: Had a fantastic first day at site yesterday, Roddy let me jump straight in with simple things like platform skims and wall plaster, (11609, 11613, 11610), all pretty basic and straight-forward tidying up of the bits and pieces left in the building. Layer ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/11/2005 
Entry: Today the students (Constantinos, Ahmet, Esra and Tuna) removed a lot of infill of the area west (10293). We exposed a lot of walls with plaser on various sides, potentially not contemporary, but we can't say yet what relations will be between them. We'... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/2005 
Entry: Its been couple of days since the last diary entry. In the meantime we finished excavating building 51, space 98 to its final phase if use/ Apart from conservation, the building wont be touched again this year. We started taking out the room fill of a c... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/13/2005 
Entry: Since last week we have concentrated on removing the remains of the primary construction phases of the building to the east of the structure. To this end Platform F. 1312, Platform F. 1332 and Bench F. 1310 have now been recorded and removed. The n... click here for more... 
 

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