Daily log, Sat 26.Sep.2015

• Author: Néhémie Strupler

The day when everyone was very tired …

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.