Unit 10308

Category: Cluster    dug in 2005

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: seeds pocket 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Material: archaeobotanical; Deposition: primary deposition

Dimensions: 15 cm x 15 cm 

Discussion: This unit consists of a small but very distinct concentration of cruciferae seeds, probably descuviunia (flixweed). This seeds are rich in oil and their collectlon and storage in Catalhoyuk was previously documented by Helbaek.
This unit should be considered together with the nearby unit 10305 (which included some lumps of these fused seeds) and most spectacularly, 'cakes' of fused cruciferae seeds found in unit 10285 (taken as sample number 5 from that unit). 

Recognition: identified by black colour and use of hand leus 

Definition: discrete concentration within 1034 fill; defined by eye 

Execution: trowel and brush 

Condition: hot and dry 

Consistency: fairly compact 

Colour: black 

Texture: matrix silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: cruciferae seeds (see discussion) 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: concave 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10304 below: (Click to view the record) 11944 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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