Craig Cessford, Richard Turnbull, Jez Taylor, Pete Boyer, Nurcan Yalman, Lucy Hawkes, Basak Boz, Atakan Guven and Charlie Newman are excavators. This involves digging, drawing features such as burials, and wall paintings, planning, for example, walls and ovens, taking photographs and writing detailed descriptions of what they've excavated. Basak Boz studies the human bone found here. Her own special area of research involves studying human teeth for wear traces which can give clues to everyday actions such as eating food. Atakan Guven is the site surveyor.
Archaeology involves the careful measurement of the location of finds, walls, buildings and so on.
It is Atakan's job to make sure all these measurements are correct so a 3D picture of the site can be produced. As well as digging Lucy also video tapes the other excavators as they dig to record their thoughts and interpretations as they happen. Craig is digging in Buildings 7 and 8. Jez and Richard dug the midden area and have now joined Craig in Buildings 7 and 8. Pete and Charlie are digging in Building 6 with Atakan when he's not surveying.