Displaying Diary Entries for the year: 2013 |
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Name: | Susan Hyden |
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Date: | 6/29/2013 |
Entry: | The excavation team started this season by going through the documentation system, as there have been some changes since last year. After this briefing there was an opportunity to ask questions and one experienced archaeologist, although new to the site, ... click here for more... |
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Name: | JB |
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Date: | 6/30/2013 |
Entry: | Today we (Johanna B. and Kyle) have cleaned building 96 for excavation to start. A small unit (u.20800) has been removed, which is interpreted as an infill layer in a pit. During season 2012 it was at first interpreted as a part of layer u.19715 (a possib... click here for more... |
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Name: | Johanna Bergqvist |
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Date: | 6/30/2013 |
Entry: | OBS! Last diary entry by me (JB) today actually concerned 29.06.13.
30.06.13.
In the beginning of work today we scraped away small remains left from last year of the floor plaster on platform F3507, in order to try to see how it relates stratigraphi... click here for more... |
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Name: | Aroa García Suárez |
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Date: | 6/30/2013 |
Entry: | Today I started the excavation of Building 114 (Space 87). As a micromorphologist, my goal is to have the maximum stratigraphical control over the deposits being excavated, allowing for even micro-layers (e.g. below 0.5cm thickness) to be excavated and do... click here for more... |
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Name: | Stella Macheridis |
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Date: | 6/30/2013 |
Entry: | Our pod of three (me, Jedrzej and Yunuz) started excavations of B. 102 yesterday, first started the last days of the 2012 season. In S17 a floor level was reached last year, but wasn't found in S18, and not even in a sondage cut they made in the middle of... click here for more... |
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Name: | Burcu Tung |
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Date: | 7/1/2013 |
Entry: | Work has begun in full blast since the teams arrived on the 25th and 26th of the month. New teams, new students, and a new season. And lots of babies, which is quite refreshing really.
I arrived on site on the 19th of June - this is rather a late diar... click here for more... |
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Name: | Erik |
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Date: | 7/1/2013 |
Entry: | Monday: First real progress in trench 2 of TPC. We uncovered an Islamic burial, truncating a roman wall. The burial had a super structure consisting of some yellowish bricks. The burial cut, laying in an E-W direction goes diagonally in to the S wall of t... click here for more... |
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Name: | Erik |
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Date: | 7/1/2013 |
Entry: | Isn't it that the unit represent an event for instance an infill, cut, construction etc, or in this case the repairing of the oven. So in order to illustrate this in the matrix the changes in the oven has to get different unit numbers. However, the oven a... click here for more... |
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Name: | Jennifer Jones |
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Date: | 7/2/2013 |
Entry: | Today has been very productive working on bones for the KOPAL project. We are investigating human: animal relations within the deposits to determine whether humans and animals have been treated in the same way. Cut marks and processing of remains are key ... click here for more... |
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Name: | Nikita Bogdanov |
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Date: | 7/2/2013 |
Entry: | We began cleaning B.43 yesterday afternoon, finishing up in today's morning section. I haven't reviewed all of the relevant literature yet, but, building on Agata's brief summary, it is clear that the building has been heavily weathered, what with being e... click here for more... |
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