Domuztepe dig diary

For six weeks during August and September 2008, archaeologists from the British Museum and the University of Manchester will be in south-central Turkey unearthing the story of Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic settlement.

British Museum curator Alexandra Fletcher is keeping a diary to report on the latest activity on-site. Follow her progress here.

Week one: getting there
Flights, taxi rides and bus journeys on the way to the first Domuztepe dig in three years

Week two: opening up 
Digging out old trenches and hard work in the heat as new ones are opened

Week three: In the shade
Domuztepe's excavators turn engineers to get a little welcome relief from the sun

Week four: a VIP site visit
A change to the usual early morning routine as the governer of the local area visits the site

Week five: the dust descends
Wind, rain and choking dust make closing the site for this season a tougher job

Week six: packing up
The season draws to a close and finds from the last 13 years have to be moved into new storage

 

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Read more about the Domuztepe research project