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: 2010

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Name: Richard May 
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Date: 6/16/2010 
Entry: And here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun!!! Eh? You what?? Ahem. Right - its June, it therefore must be my customary first diary entry for the year. This year Sarah is here setting up the database so I've had to push her out of the w... click here for more... 
 
Name: melek 
Team:  
Date: 6/28/2010 
Entry: 19/06/2010 catakhoyuk `e 18/06/2010 tarihinde geldik. Catalhoyuk`e gelisimin 4. Yili fakat her gelisimde ilk gunku gelisimin heyecanini yasiyorum. Dunyanin farkli cografyalarinda yasayan insanlar buraya tek bir amac icin geliyor ve son derece uyumlu bi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team:  
Date: 7/15/2010 
Entry: It's Soooooo Hooooooot!!!!! 
 
Name: roddy regan 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2010 
Entry: First excavation diary 2010 we have been digging for two days now and it appears we may have a bit of a slog in building 80 as mostr of it is filled with very very compacted mudbrick like material. The dumps appear to consist of very broken up buildin... click here for more... 
 
Name: PDGDF 
Team:  
Date: 7/20/2010 
Entry: First excavation diary of the UC Merced team. We started to excavate the 17th of July. We are excavating in the east mound, south area, building 86, space 329. Maurizio, Fabrizio, Carlos and I arrived one week before the excavation started. Maurizio'... click here for more... 
 
Name: MB 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2010 
Entry: This is my first diary entry for the Catal 2010 season. I was in Catal in 2007 and 2008, so it feels a little bit like coming back home. However, there is an important change this year: I moved from the West Mound to the East Mound. Last year, during ... click here for more... 
 
Name: PDGDF 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2010 
Entry: Wednesday 07/21/2010 we finished excavating the fire spot fill (19104), documented the fire spot cut, and recognized a new unit (19106), a midden layer composed of silty clay. The inclusions characterize the layer: small pieces of plaster; about the 10% ... click here for more... 
 
Name: PDGDF 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2010 
Entry: Today we finished excavating the unit (19108) in which we found some beads, an amazing piece of quarzite with organic inclusions, and coprolites. The coprolites were found during the dry sieving, but I have to admit that we were not able to recognize them... click here for more... 
 
Name: RR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2010 
Entry: update on the progress within building 80. The sequence I thought was happening within the building is a bit different than we first guessed. Apart from around the western and southern wall we have come across very little in the way of burnt building ma... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lisa Yeomans 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2010 
Entry: Yesterday just finished in the 4040 Area where I was looking at the stratigraphic relationship between buildings. This was to prove the sequence of construction of B.59 and the Building below B.64 (Sp.138). From the 2008 work in space 60 we already knew... click here for more... 
 

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