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: 2012

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Name: Richard May 
Team:  
Date: 6/26/2012 
Entry: Dear Diary, Welcome one and all to Catalhoyuk 2012. The server and network is now all fully up and running and this is therefore my customary first diary entry of the season. This is to be my last year with the project and therefore my focus is on ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard May 
Team:  
Date: 6/29/2012 
Entry: Hi all, First two entries in the diary for me this year. It 3:18 on Friday 29th June 2012 and I'm done setting up for the season and have finished documenting all there is to know about the technical ICT Systems on site. Should you be interested yo... click here for more... 
 
Name: James T 
Team:  
Date: 7/3/2012 
Entry: OK time for a diary entry now that the chaos of the last week or two is beginning to subside. Things are underway in the South and we have finally built up a head of steam. Several meetings later and we have a clear understanding of Ian’s medium and lo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Burcu Tung 
Team:  
Date: 7/3/2012 
Entry: Its been a hectic couple of days, although it seems as though things are finally settling down. I’ve been here since the 19th of June, and it already feels like I’ve actually never left. Exploring those feelings are for another day though. The season ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: On 1st of July I started work from scraping and cleaning North [F.4098] and West [3071] faces of the walls of the southern room (ante-chamber) of the Shrine 8. The activity aimed to record (by photo) stratygraphy of the structures left by Mellaart in the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: On 2nd of July work had focused mainly on exploration of the inter-wall infill [19385] as the latest=youngest deposit in the research area. During the excavation there were two clusters recorded within the narrow space restricted by two walls (Northern F.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: After consultation and taking into consideration prospective areas to excavate on 3rd of july, it has been decided that work should be concentrate particularly on the west face of wall aligned from the top to B.97. The above idea was supported by priority... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: On 4th of July the field work concentrated on the exploration of the room fill [U. 19390] placed within the space 470. In its eastern part it was evidently truncated and left fragmentarily by Mellaart (just as the other layers above the fill [19389, 19388... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: Today (5th of July) we have continued the excavation of U.19390 that most likely must be considered as the room fill dumped deliberately inside an open area between four walls that had been evidenced as space 470. Today execution revealed more plasters se... click here for more... 
 
Name: Patrycja Filipowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/7/2012 
Entry: In the 2012 season a new excavation area designated as TPC (TP connection) was opened up in order to investigate the stratigraphic relationships between structures revealed in the TP area and Building 10 located in South Area, tentatively assigned by Mel... click here for more... 
 

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