Unit 11001

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Fill of burial 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Description: FAST TRACK 

Discussion: This unit began to be excavated by Shanti, Ruth, Lizzy, but was completed by the human remains excavation team, once the skeleton began to be revealed at +/- 8 cm below the surface of the cut. The grave fill was mostly a grey-brown friable soild but it was interspersed with patches of more compact soil of differing colors. The grave fill was not very deep relative to the graves exposed this season east of it. There were several inclusions in the fill, including animal bones and some pottery. The soil became much looser nearer the skeleton. Animal and root disturbance was significant in the eastern 1/2 of the unit. Coffin wood outlined the grave and defined the outer limits of the fill.

FAST TRACK

EXCAVATED 13/07/04 

Recognition: Greyish stain in surrounding 11000 fill appeared to indicate a burial (first revealed in surface scrape) 

Definition: Striking difference in color and texture from surrounding 11000 fill; clear outline visible 

Execution: Removal of fill using trowel, brush, leaf trowel, in plan, by lenses; began at E and W sides of unit; soil deposited outside E edge of 4040 

Condition: Unit is very dry in upper 2 cm, becoming more moist at lower portion 

Consistency: Alternately soft/friable w/ pockets of firm 

Colour: Munsel 10YR 4/2 -- medium yellowish grey to grey brown 

Texture: Silty clayey loam 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Salts, obsidian, ceramic, animal bone, mud brick fragments, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: Some bioturbation due to small root systems, some compaction, some aeolian and alluvial surface erosion 

Basal Boundary: Where human remains begin to emerge at base of level 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 11004 below: (Click to view the record) 10223, 10219 

Dry sieve volume: 15 

Total Deposit Volume: 15 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

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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