Daily log, Mon 31.Aug.2015

• Author: Néhémie Strupler

The first day of intensive survey

It was the first day of intensive survey. Breakfast was at 5:45, we jumped into the car at 6:30 and headed to the North of Didim. Anja, Toby, Michael, Cem, Birce and Néhémie were sitting in the car.

The team started with a test walk to discuss sherd counts and visibility assessment. After this warm-up, Anja, Michael, Cem, Birce and Néhémie - the best team of the day (Team A) - started to survey. Of course Toby pretended that he would help the team and instead of walking spent most of the day sipping ice tea in the shadow :p

Survey started on the plateau between Sulubarak deresi, Yassı tepe and the neighborhood called Aegean Heights 1

Achievements of the day

On one of the highest point of this area, Toby and Anja had recorded the POI 1021 last Thursday (2015.08.27) and we surveyed it from east to west. Near to the POI the concentration of ceramic was high but decreased quickly. After tract 3012 we had our second breakfast break. Simit and poğaça for everyone.

For tracts 3013 - 3025 we walked backwards (to the east) directly south on the first tracks and ate lunch under a nice lonely tree from 11:30 to 12:00.

We started to walk westwards again, on the south of the morning’s tracts but everyone started to show signs of tiredness and we decided to stop after tract 3033 (13:30). The weather forecast announced 34°C for midday.

I have the feeling that everyone was happy that we did so much for a first day. Let’s see how it will go tomorrow!

About dogs

Just after the 2nd breakfast, as Toby was walking ahead to mark the tract, he was attacked by a pack of at least 6 dogs (he said 8). We were all scared from the barking and we had to throw stone to keep them away … Quite unpleasant!

List of Tracts created

• Tracts 3001 to 3034