More experiments have been undertaken over the last week in and around our replica houses, including a lot of experimental fuel burning and cooking. The action started with the construction of some outdoor shelters and hearths by Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, helped by Fe and Ed. The shelter gives shade in the […]
Cooking the old fashioned way at Boncuklu’s visitor centre
Cooking the old fashioned way at Boncuklu’s visitor centre
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Tablets curing the headache of data entry at Boncuklu
Tablets curing the headache of data entry at Boncuklu
Can you spot the new bit of kit that has become part of the toolboxes which are daily trundled up to site in our BK wheelbarrows? On the ladder: two of our Android tablets. As we reported last year, Boncuklu is a test excavation for the FAIMS recording system, designed […]
BK2015 Official digteam photo number 1
BK2015 Official digteam photo number 1
Well here it is: official dig team photo number 1 from the end of Dig Week 4. We are missing a few people including Caroline and Finn but this is most of the team in the first 4 weeks of Boncuklu 2015. What a lovely bunch and thanks to all […]
Experimental burials await internees: heads or tails?
Experimental burials await internees: heads or tails?
Why are Ed and Felicia looking a bit pensive as they flip a coin after digging a grave in Boncuklu’s experimental house? This is one of the more macabre elements of our experimental program to reconstruct the houses which were found at BK 10,000 years ago. After repairing the roof, […]
Update from the trenches
Update from the trenches
Digging continues apace! In Area P we are steadily removing plaster floors from Buildings 20 and 21. This is painstaking work as the floors are rarely continuous and sometimes there are areas where one floor might be a thin wash and it can be difficult to separate from that underlying […]
Geophysical team in the (dig)house
Geophysical team in the (dig)house
Over the last week at BK strange sights have been witnessed on the mound: is it a new TV aerial, some form of water-divining equipment or even a futuristic zimmer-frame? And why isthat person hammering pegs into the mound? Well, it is Kelsey Lowe and Aaron Fogel undertaking geophysical survey! […]
Goodbye to our IFR colleagues
Goodbye to our IFR colleagues
For the second year running students have come to Boncuklu to take part in our fieldschool accredited by the Institute for Field Research (https://www.ifrglobal.org/). The 5 week school includes one week of site visits and lectures led by Doug Baird, followed by 4 weeks of excavation during which participants undertake […]
School visits Boncuklu
School visits Boncuklu
Last week the Boncuklu Project was delighted to host the children and teachers of Hayıroglu School. In a two hour visit led by Gökhan Mustafaoglu and Mustafa Güven, more than 30 kids passed through the visitor centre, clambered through the replica houses, saw the team in action at the excavation […]
Drone buzzes Boncuklu
Drone buzzes Boncuklu
On 24 July Dr Nicola Lercari carried out a drone survey at Boncuklu. His 4 prop mini-helicopter buzzed backwards and forwards across the site at a set height following a pre-programmed flight path that Nicola was able to follow and modify through his tablet. The drone was fitted with a […]
Service interruption
Service interruption
We may have a nice new powerful modem, complete with dashing aerials, but due to a technical fault the Boncuklu dighouse has had neither telephone nor internet for the last week. Various enquiries have so far failed to track down the cause of the problem – for once it was […]