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: 2015

Page 1 of 6 (Total Records: 54)
Name: Nicola Lercari 
Team:  
Date: 6/29/2015 
Entry: Season 2015 witnesses another leap forward in the development of the digital documentation of Çatlhöyük. I am writing this new diary entry directly from the South Area using the new WiFi intranet connection that was installed in the last week of June 2015... click here for more... 
 
Name: EJ 
Team:  
Date: 6/30/2015 
Entry: The first couple of days we cleaned our building, checked up on old documentation, placed targets and generated a 3D-model. Basically we are trying to do all pre-documentation steps properly before we excavate. However, when we start it will be a straight... click here for more... 
 
Name: JL 
Team:  
Date: 7/1/2015 
Entry: My first week at Catal has been great. The digital on site documentation is great, although I have some thoughts about how some of the processes can be made more efficient and accurate. As I have understood, many of the pods are making their "orthophotos"... click here for more... 
 
Name: Paul E Pettersson 
Team:  
Date: 7/1/2015 
Entry: We have started our work on connecting the two trenches TPC3 and 4. The first days of work have been used for studiyng the earlier excavations in these trenches, but also to try to remember all the procedures in Catal; How to write a tag, how to take a sa... click here for more... 
 
Name: Erik Johansson 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: We have had a very productive couple of days in B17. The south walls of B24 and B6 are coming down and at the foundation of F.485 we came across a buchrania that the conservation team are solidifying in order for us to continue dismantling the wall. S... click here for more... 
 
Name: JL 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: The meta archaeology in building 6 continues and the remaining walls left behind by Mellart are taken down in a rapid pace. Detective work in the archive has lead me and Erik in the right direction. Fun fact. Me and Erik are filming a sequal of the lo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Christoffer Hagberg 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: Building 52. One building, seven siderooms and I don't even know how many floating features! Arriving to building 52 as a newcomer has truly been overwhelming. Even my dreams are infected by ideas of how the building adds up and what phase (-es) we're cur... click here for more... 
 
Name: Robert 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: Since the introductory tablet workshop where working with ArcGIS ArcMap in the field was introduced I have noticed some issues that could greatly improve the workflow on several levels. During the introductory workshop we georeferenced an “ortho photo” wh... click here for more... 
 
Name: JL 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: The meta archaeology in buliding 6 is coming along and the walls left unexcavated by Mellaart is taken down in a rapid pace. The stratigraphy is starting to get a bit more clear now, when me and Erik have been doing some detective work in the Archive. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Rémi Hadad 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2015 
Entry: Should we create features for floors? In building 52, I'm used to create a feature number for the whole sequence of floor which belongs to the same phase and the same space. I understood that most people just create units in order to record each floor l... click here for more... 
 

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