Unit 2528

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

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

Dimensions: 80 x 53 x 26 cm 

Discussion: Hackberry behind left elbow of skeleton; thick phytolith cover in front of left humerus as well as traces throughout the soil. Also, hackberry in front of lower leg? Lots of voids around skeleton. Phytoliths around upper left scapula, all over pelvis (sample 2), and lines around the skeleton as though a bag/shroud/mat. The soil around the bones was often loose and possibly due to the numerous voids, I could hear where the bones were when scraping the soil. Phytolith continued throughout mainly textile tape in a ring around the skeleton, across right leg, shoulders/neck, through jaw. Also a patch below right ribs and next to left leg -- suggest a bag/sack tied tightly with tape. Lump of chalk between right femur and fibula (x2), and worked bone between right femur and tibia near knee (x1). Thin layers of yellow ochre in front of lumbar vertebra -- no sample taken. 

Execution: leaf trowel, dental pick, brush 

Condition: cool to warm, calm (time lapse photography restricted movements) 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: 2.5 y 4/3 olive brown 

Texture: sandy clay silt 

Bedding: massive? Seems layered in places, but this could be due to decomposition of large amounts of grasses on a skeleton 

Inclusions: occ. small shell <2%, occ. small bone <2%, charcoal <1cm <2%, frag. of pot, salts 5%, stone <2cm=<2% 

Post-depositional Features: root disturbance most noticeable in lower levels-- roots growing inside long bones and skull of skeleton and through the base of the cut. 

Basal Boundary: roughly flat, anthropogenic, not always clear due to overcutting to remove fragile bones. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2529 below: (Click to view the record) 2150, 2151, 2191, 2515, 2511 

Dry sieve volume: 23 

Total Deposit Volume: 54 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of X-Finds 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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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