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: 2006

Page 1 of 23 (Total Records: 228)
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/14/2006 
Entry: Arrived on site on the evening of Suday 4th of June. The first day was spent clearing the pottery lab of stored equipment and helping ready the dig house. The next couple of days were spent cleaning up the South area, under the main shelter, ready for exc... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/14/2006 
Entry: 2006 a week into excavation and my first diary entry. So what have we been up to. Emptied the little room at the NW of the building, removing blocking wall 11692/11693 and roomful 11694. However in doing so we saw that the western surviving foundation ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/17/2006 
Entry: First diary entry of the season. We have been taking down the room fill (12902) in space 276. This revealed a room with a unusual layou with bins along the north side of the western wall and dirty floors in the north part of the space. The space is conne... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/18/2006 
Entry: I know I am late to write a diary. Sorry. As i read Rody's diary he explained lots of things that we did in last two weeks.This week We started to take out all of the floors in building 56. I took of the plaster on NE platform F2058 which is 12824.It was... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/18/2006 
Entry: Arived on site 04/06/2006 Spent the first week cleaning the South area and removing sand bags from the west strip of the 4040 area and cleaning the loose to reveal the late phase Neolithic structures (phases five or six) these had all been identified and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Maria Duggan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/18/2006 
Entry: First diary entry. Arrived on site on the 04/06/06. After some weeding began a large scale clean up of the South area. It turned out to be rather a useful exercise to familiarise myself with the archaeology. It suddenly seemed like a long time since I'd b... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/19/2006 
Entry: In the last couple of weeks I carried out work in the 4040 area strictly in post neolithic context. I mainly excavated features related to B 41 the late construction there. I found a glazed pottery sherd in the fill of the foundation trench. If in Romania... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/19/2006 
Entry: Since last entry things have moved along and we are now down to the early construction phases of Building 56. We have removed the earlier oven and hearth sequences. This involved removing floor 12846, lower floor 12852 and walls and mortar construction ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/19/2006 
Entry: The last couple of days we have been cleaning out the rest of the building fill in space 276, recorded, doing the endless feature sheets for a cleared out space and excavating the bins. The bins F.2202 was a group of three attached to the western wall of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/20/2006 
Entry: I cleaned the entire surface of 4040 southern part in order to see what the Byzantine walls of B41 are doing. South of the building there is a square space created by a wall with a clay foundation shalower than the others (30 cm). It goes all the way to ... click here for more... 
 

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