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: 2017

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Name: arek 
Team:  
Date: 6/2/2017 
Entry: The value of the talk at Catal’ • Few days ago I had opportunity to have a nice talk with Sean who hosted before Scott in the lithic-lab. Scot was interested in seeing the obsidian blades (U.23034) that were found within the cache (F. 8359) in B.131 (Sp.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Duygu E. 
Team:  
Date: 6/3/2017 
Entry: Last week’s aim was getting rid of the features and revealing the packing all over S.531. So first thing to remove was the long lived bench F.7879. While I was excavating the make-up of the bench U.32740, unexpectedly I revealed an earlier phase of th... click here for more... 
 
Name: Justine Issavi 
Team:  
Date: 6/4/2017 
Entry: The use of open spaces through time is a central concern for my dissertation project and in many ways Space 610 is the perfect case study. Large and multi-phased, the space has variously accommodated a great array of activities (ranging from food processi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Kevin Kay 
Team:  
Date: 6/5/2017 
Entry: Finally closed unit (23084) that subsumes all the later layers of pre-construction deposition in the side-room of B.131. Re. the history of the space: (23084) comprises all deposits (except one possible burial) above the collapsed W wall of B.139. Thi... click here for more... 
 
Name: arek 
Team:  
Date: 6/9/2017 
Entry: Unfortunately ... There were no any caches within the pits recorded along the vast leveling deposit/ packing U.32761 in Sp.531. We expected to find there amazing foundation-deposits that were set just before laying down the floors of the new-established m... click here for more... 
 
Name: Ahmed Kzzo 
Team:  
Date: 6/9/2017 
Entry: I arrived at ?atalhoyuk on April 29. Before ?atalhoyuk, I used to excavate in Ebla in Syria. The two sites belong to different periods. But these two sites became symbolic for the modern states of Syri, and Turkey. Actually, I did not feel like a strange... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nada Elias 
Team:  
Date: 6/11/2017 
Entry: Le Samedi 2017-06-10 Un an déjà, les souvenirs jaillissent un par un, une fois les pieds sur les terres de Çatalhöyük. C’est étrange combien un seul lieu peut avoir une aussi grande mémoire. Tout témoigne la magie de l’espace et l’énergie du lieu absorbe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nada Elias 
Team:  
Date: 6/11/2017 
Entry: Le Samedi 2017-06-10 L’homme et la mort au Néolithique en général et dans la maison 17 en particulier : Deux sépultures ont attiré mon attention dans la maison 17. La première concerne un individu adulte enduit par de l’ocre rouge comme pour redonner... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jovana Tripkovic 
Team:  
Date: 5/3/2017 
Entry: First impressions Even though it came as a surprise the chance to excavate Catalhoyuk came both as a priviledge and a pleasure, even more because of 2017 being the last opportunity to do so. I would have thought it not difficult excavation-wise if this... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jovana Tripkovic 
Team:  
Date: 6/1/2017 
Entry: New people/New strategies Today Cristina Belmonte was transfered from the South Area to the building 131! She is exceptionally energetic and charismatic person, not to mention a veteran contract archaeologist that has the decisivness and boldness w... click here for more... 
 

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