panormos/teamAn online reference for Panormosites and interested parties
…Planning the Survey Team’s Participation, 2017…
Dear Panormosites,
We are soon heading for the field, and in order to prepare yourselves – both in terms of equipment needed, safety and the sort of things we will be doing whilst in the field.
In particular we want to draw your attention to the handbooks on:-
Intro to Survey Methods: http://team.panormos.de/handbooks/survey_methodology/
Contact details for emergencies:-
You can find your personal Walker number from here:- http://team.panormos.de/handbooks/datacollection/walkernumbers.html
Also, for the current planning Timetable for 2017, see:- http://team.panormos.de/planning/timetable-2017.html
Please note that some these things are provisional and are subject to change by the time we get there. These pages will be updated so you can check nearer the time if there is information missing currently.
See you in August, The Panormos Team
After the conference yesterday, the team decided to start a little latter this morning, but everyone confessed that they had woken up at the same time as usual. This did not matter, however, as we then enjoyed a longer breakfast, with work starting somewhere between 08:00 and 09:00 am.
Toby and Lindsey went into the field in the morning to record non-walkable tracts and collected plant samples for isotope analysis. Lindsey took photographs in the afternoon and Toby prepared the botanical samples for further analysis by crushing them and hanging them to dry. Anja and Vera worked on the dating of the pottery by looking for additional parallels in the shapes and in the fabrics. I continued to work on creating new maps. My favourite map from today shows the walker lines color-coded by walker numbers and overlain with the diagnostic findspots.
It fits nicely with the barplot of the total number of tracts walked by individual walkers.
The weather was really nice today - not very hot, but sunny and not too cold either, even in the evening. Everyone was tired today, but there was a good ambiance and a lot of exchanges between all the participants regarding the results and possible future(s) of the project. Is there any chance for a survey in 2016?
Lindsey and I stayed at the excavation house for the evening while the Tavşan Team went out for dinner. We had a nice and simple meal with mercimek çorbası, some salad and Turkish ‘wedding music’ playing in the background.
The cast:
Another wet day. Today was arife for urban bayramı and most of our Turkish team had already left Didim by this morning. Only Cem waited forlornly in the Atlantik reception area for an 8 am bus.
Though the weather was wet and our numbers reduced, our spirits remained high.
Some of us, however, (well, actually most of us it seems), had not slept well. Aside from the normal joys of “Brian” [1], there were other factors at work. A rhythmic electronic noise repeating every 5 minutes kept the Atlantik-occupying team less-than-well-rested. The speculation regarding the origin and meaning of this noise was intense. Did the hotel host (the friendly Sinan) have a secret washing machine where all the bed sheets and clothes were washed after all? (Unlikely.) Could it be an alien force experimenting on human subjects? Was there some maniacal hotel guest who took pleasure in switching on and off their air-conditioning units precisely every 5 minutes? To these question no firm answers were found.
The result though was tiredness. NS decided to up-sticks early from the Atlantik and head for the relative safety and quiet of the Didim excavation house by the evening.
During the day, work continued on the two essential aspects of completion of the project work for 2015: (1) the finds processing and (2) the data work.
Whilst most drawings had been completed the previous day, they still needed to be checked for accuracy by the sharp eyes of VS. AS continued to try to give preliminary dates to the finds and assess the fabrics carefully. ML and LF joined forces to work on the serious backlog of find photographs.
Meanwhile, in the hotel work-room, TCW worked on data cleaning and finding information for the museum report. NS used his R-wizardry to improve the data visualisation.
They all lived happily ever after.
Zafer abi slaughtered a sheep bayram.
Michael reportedly ate kokoreç this evening, after an unsatisfactory hams dinner at the Atlantik
TW noticed that the team had covered an area of 130ha over the 3 weeks of intensive. This is twice the expected 60ha originally planned at the beginning of the season, and all with a smaller team than originally expected. Well done everyone!
[1]: The “famous” “singer” who renders his sweet tones in the cafe opposite the Atlantik apart, every night between 20:00 and c. 02:00. (The cafe is called “Cafe’s Bar and Restaurant”. All bases covered there then. It is mostly frequented by rather bored-looking British tourists).
Der Tag begann mit dem schemenhaften Bild einer grauen Scherbe. Im Halbschlaf versuchte ich, einen Teil der Oberfläche weg zu schmirgeln, aber der Ton war zu hart, sodass die Scherbe einfach nicht in die Zeichnung passen wollte… Das Frühstück, das wir selbst zubereiteten (wegen der Feiertage haben die beiden Köchinnen frei und können ausschlafen), fand nicht immer im Kaminzimmer statt, das Muhtarın immer so liebevoll als ‚Salon‘ bezeichnet. Diese Wolken verziehen sich einfach nicht hinter die Bodrum-Halbinsel. Der Rest des Tages bestand großenteils aus Tütenwäldern, die mit mehr oder minder (meistens minder) schönen Füßen und Rändern befüllt waren. Ich fühle mich wie in einer archäologischen Fließbandproduktion, die sicherstellt, dass nach der einen Tüte ganz bestimmt noch zwei andere warten. Doch es sieht gut aus – wir kommen bestimmt gut durch. Am anderen Ende des Raumes stehen Michael und Lindsey und schwitzen in der Hitze der Fotolampe. Ich habe selten zwei so fleißige archäologische Fotografen getroffen, die regelmäßig darauf hinweisen, dass sie keine Zeit für Pausen haben… „There is still loads to do“, merkt Michael an – und schmerzlich wird und bewusst, dass unser Team sich heute um einen weiteren Mitarbeiter verkleinert. Toby sitzt mir gegenüber und sieht sehr konzentriert aus. Wie sich herausstellt, arbeitet er gerade an der Präsentation, die morgen Abend über den Survey gehalten wird. (Christoph Berns aus Milet wird auch kommen, um unser Material zu sehen.) Néhémie sitzt auf der Terrasse und programmiert. (Damit erfüllt er mich ganz schön mit Ehrfurcht, da ich schon froh bin, wenn ich mich nach irgendwelchen Updates nicht in neue IT-Materie einarbeiten muss…) Leider kann ich also gar nicht viel Inhaltliches beisteuern über das, was am Ende herauskommen soll. Für mich klingt der Tag mit einem Bier aus, nachdem ich mich von Michael verabschiedet habe. Abends sitze ich mit meinem Computer im Dépot. Da alle anderen ins Kamacı 1 am Tempel ausgeflogen sind, schieben Néhémie und ich uns ein paar mit Tomate und Käse belegte Brotstücke in den Ofen. Es ist wieder recht warm geworden und ein laues Lüftchen lässt die Bambusblätter, die von dem vorderen Balkon herunterhängen, leise rascheln. Nun habe ich ganz vergessen, dass vorhin Besuch aus Hattuşa vorbei kam! Dominique vertritt dort auf der Grabung gerade meinen Freund Sven, der Funde im Museum von Ankara aufarbeiten muss. Da die Mannschaft in Hattuşa über Şeker Bayramı nicht arbeiten durfte, nutzten Dominique und vier Kolleginnen die Gelegenheit, eine kleine Westküstentour zu unternehmen. Es war sehr schön, sie wiederzusehen. Überhaupt ist es eine supertolle, wunderschöne Kampagne dieses Jahr mit spannenden Ergebnissen und vielen tollen neuen Leuten! (Also: Vielen Dank an alle für diese schönen Tage!!)
Das Team besteht jetzt noch aus:
Today was the first rainy day. It started around 10:00 am and turned into a heavy rain after lunch, which was accompanied by a short electricity cut. Today lunch was celebrated at the excavation house, and I appreciated the home-made food. Eğlinize sağlık.
Anja coordinated work at the depot: Vera, Birce, Lindsey and Hazal did pottery drawing while Cem took photographs. Birce, Hazal and Cem are leaving the project tonight or tomorrow. The team will be quite small after that :( Even if all the sherds are drawn, they must now be described and checked. There is still a lot work for the photographers* …
At the hotel it was a new day of cleaning and processing the collected digital data. Michael worked hard to finish the vectorisation of the walked track (he probably made about 6000 clicks per hour today) and Néhémie wrote Rcode to make new plots. Additionally, Toby helped to clean the data and prepared a list of outputs to be done during the week.
*Truth.
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Bugün Panormos ekibi iki ayrı gruplar halinde çalışmalarını sürdürdü. Michael, Nehemie ve Toby otelde dijital belgeleme işlerini yürütmek amacıyla kaldılar. Ben, Birce, Vira, Lindsey seramik çizim çalışmalarımıza devam ettik. Anja seramiklerin dökümleri ile ilgili çalıştı. Cem ise seramiklerin fotoğraflarını çekmeye devam etti. Yavaş yavaş işler bitmeye başlarken herkes çok yorgundu. Ama son günlerin verdiği hüzün duygusu da hissediliyordu. Saat 4 te paydos yaptık kazı evinde çaylarımızı içtikten sonra otelimize döndük ve bir çalışma gününün daha sonuna geldik.
Kahvaltıdan sonra araziye çıktık. Ama fazla vakit alacak kadar çalışmamız gerekmediği için saat dokuz civarında kazı evine geçiş yaptık. Nehemie rahatsız olduğu için bize katılamadı. Kazı evinde ise ben her zaman olduğu gibi fotoğraf çekmekle uğraştım. Cem de bugün bana yardım etti. Hazal, Birce ve Lindsey çizim yaparken, Toby ve Michael ise dökümantasyon ile uğraştılar. Günlerden cumartesi olduğu için öğle yemeğine kadar devam ettik.
Bu sezon benim için oldukça güzel geçen bir sezon oldu. Umarım diğer ekip arkadaşlarımda benimle aynı düşünceyi paylaşıyorlardır.
Dünden beri çok hasta olduğum için; Perşembe tüm, Cuma yarım gün çalışmadım. Ve herkes de yorgun olduğu ve yapılacak az track kaldığı için araziye çıkılmadı. Bu nedenle işler otelde ve depoda devam etti. Nehemie, Michael ve Toby otelde çalışmalar yaptıktan sonra birlikte kazı evine gittik. (Nehemie dışında. Çünkü o da hastalandı ve bizimle gelemedi. Umarım hemen iyileşir.) Toby,Michael ve ben kazı evine ulaştık. Gittiğimizde Cem ve Lindsay seramik yıkıyordu.(Cem ona yardım edeceğimi söyleyip,geç gittiğim için biraz yakındı :) ) Hazal, Anja ve Vira çizim yapıyordu. Ben de hemen çizim yapmaya başladım. Bu arada Vira ile yeni tanıştım. Ve çizim konusunda ona da danıştım. Bu sırada Çağatay da fotoğraf çekimlerine devam etti. Cem ve Lindsay ‘in işleri bitince; Cem Çağatay'a yardım etti. Lindsay de çizim yapmaya başladı. Michael ve Toby oteldeki, bilgisayar çalışmalarına kazı evinde devam ettiler. 16:00 'da çalışmayı bitirdik ve hep beraber çay içip sohbet ettik. 16:50 'de kazı evinden ayrıldık.
Ekibimizin en kalabalık olduğu günlerden bir tanesiydi. Çünkü hepimiz hiçbir zaman bir arada bulunmuyorduk. Bugün ilk kez (Nehemie dışında :( ) tüm ekip birlikte kazı evinde çalıştık. Biraz havasız olmadı değil :) .
Michael was super-grumpy today (sorry!). Contributing factors involved ripped trousers, falling headfirst into a thorn bush, and a craving for a meat kebab. The less said the better…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQc
One of the more groovy (and unexpected) sights of the day was seeing a tractor driving practically vertically up and down a ridge edge. This area had been marked ‘unwalkable’ by the team due to its steepness, and yet the crazy driver didn’t see any problem taking his wheels up and down. The area survyed comprised the the 'bowl’ inside the steep ridge edges, the top olive-tree-strewn-plateau, and also a pathway past a villa complex and children’s play area. (Unfortunately the team were not given playtime, and kept working hard).
Breaktime was taken halfway up a hill, where we found a number of plastic chairs and a table - we really have found Stuff everywhere in the landscape! The morning snack was a plumb called Erik.
Unfortunately, Birce was ill today, and Toby was also unable to join us in the field. Best wishes to them both. Vera arrived today and joined Anja at the excavation house to work on processing our finds hoard. Good luck, there’s a lot to get through!
Belki inanmayabilirsiniz ancak bugün de şaşırtıcı bir biçimde güne survey ya parak başladık. İt was quite extraordinary. :)) Artık sona yaklaşıyoruz ve yorgunluğumuz da had safhada. Günler üst üste bindikçe biz de tükeniyoruz ama vites düşürmeden devam ediyoruz. Bugün 50 alanda survey çalışmalarımızı tamamladık. Özellikle Yükselen Villaları mevkiinde taradığımız birkaç zeytinlikte aşırı seviyede çatı kiremiti, stroter ve seramikle karşılaştık. Örneğin tek bir alanda sayacımın gösterdiği sayı 565'ti. Bu arada bu zeytinliklere girmek de kolay olmadı. Son iki gündür -çalıştığımız alan yaşadığı bölge olsa gerek karşılaştığımız dağ tavşanından olsa gerek, keçi olarak sürdürdüğümüz hayatımıza, zeytinliklere girebilmek adına tavşan gibi devam ettik. Son birkaç gündür dağları tepeleri dolaşırken bugün çitleri aşarak görevimizi yerine getirdik. Bu zorlu görev Michael, Nehemie ve benimdi. Yani takımın en iyi elamanlarının..! :P Bunun yanısıra depoda da çalışmalara devam edildi. Anja, Hazal ve Çağatay buluntuların çizilmesi ve fotoğraflanması işlerinde ilerleme kaydettiler. Depoda iş çok. Proje sonuna kadar yetiştirmek istiyoruz.
Birce bugün hiç düşmedi.
Nehemie projenin başından beri ilk defa arabayı kullandı. Toby ve Anja'nın tahtı sallanıyor. :)
İş bitip, kazı evine ulaştığımızda kazı başkanı Helga'nın doğumgünü olduğunu öğrendik. Dün Otel sahibi Sinan Abi'nin doğumgünü idi. 9 Eylül Anja, 10 Eylül Hazal derken Nehemie'nin doğumgünü ile başlayan proje doğumgünleri ile devam etti, ve ediyor da. Anlayacağınız bu aralar epey pasta yedik.