Unit 17940

Category: Cut    dug in 2009

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Dimensions: .51m N-S, .37m E-W, .10m deep 

Discussion: Final cut in platform, contained skeleton of child 4-5 (actually 2-3, post lab analysis) years. Slightly undercut on the east side. Cut was somewhat unclear and excavated primarily by the friability of the fill and bounded at depth by a layer of phytoliths - probably a basket associated with the burial. 

Recognition: skeleton in fill 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel and small tools 

Condition: hot and dry 

Shape: oval 

Sides: concave 

Base Break: gradual 

Base: concave 

Orientation: n/a 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17498 below: (Click to view the record) 17939 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

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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