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: 2007

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Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/23/2007 
Entry: We have mostly been in the South shelter since arriving working in the area of Building 53 and Space 261. We removed the walls of building 53, space 253 which was build in a construction cut for the north and east walls. We are now contining in Space 261... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/2007 
Entry: First entry 2007 Arived on site the morning of the 16/06/07, helped set up the seminar room and dug out the records for building 59 and 60, to get up to speed on where the excavations finished 2006, as Simon and Dave continued excavation after I left... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/2007 
Entry: We finished in the South ara for the meantime since the layers are all sloping down under the area of the tourists viewing area and we are not yet sure of the plan for the access into the south shelter. So we are heading back to the 4040 area which im gla... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: After my arrival from Diyarbakir in the early hours of the 24th, I felt really bad about leaving my travel mates Philipp and Francis out there in Eastern Anatolia after three great Near Eastern months together. And cursed myself for squeezing an excavatio... click here for more... 
 
Name: Katie Jenene Kamphaus 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: Today was the first day for Peter's team to work on the West Mound. Yesterday we had taken a tour of the entire site including the East Mound, so it was interesting to get to really see everything at the famous Catal Hoyuk. The first thing we worked o... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kathryn Elizabeth Hall 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: Monday 25th of June 2007: Day One Although I arrived late on the 23rd, today has been my first day "on site;" yesterday consisting primarily of a much needed lie-in and orientation tours and lectures. I found this introduction very helpful, as reconcil... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kathryn Elizabeth Hall 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: Monday 25th of June 2007: Day One Although I arrived late on the 23rd, today has been my first day "on site;" yesterday consisting primarily of a much needed lie-in and orientation tours and lectures. I found this introduction very helpful, as reconci... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rosalind Wallduck 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: Day 1- My first day at Catal. I woke up feeling a bit sleepy and still a bit ill due to my annoying cold, but despite that, I was excited about the day ahead. After collecting the tools we set off to the West mound, and I felt everyone was in a good ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Genevieve Holdridge 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: I am working with Peter Biehl and Eva on the west mound along with some other students and two laborers. Our objective was to clean out the 'dirt'bags covering the excavated trench number 5, and a small extension to the east of trench 5. We formed grou... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 6/25/2007 
Entry: Day 1, season 3. Spent it removing the backfill from trenches on west mound, lifting out the sandbags and trowelling down the trenches. Seems that there is a lot more soil to be moved before we get to the actual Chalcolithic stuff, and possibly a few more... click here for more... 
 

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