Unit 1197

Category: cluster    dug in 1995

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: animal bone 

 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: bin; Material: animal bone; Deposition: secondary deposition

 

Dimensions: 0.42 x 0.09 x 0.03m 

 

Discussion: Massive bovine mandible lying in middle of burnt fill (1196) between plaster "walls" 1195 and 1232. 

 

Execution: trowel and leaf 

Condition: hot under cover 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1342, 1329 below: (Click to view the record) 1196 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 23 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 188

Features:: none

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 1  Unit description: This unit was a cluster for a single cattle mandible, X1, which was lying on top of the lentil bin in House 1. It is a strikingly large piece for House 1, being nearly complete, hence perhaps deliberately placed. Moreover, it is unusual to find a large mammal jaw so complete anywhere on site. It was in a layer of burnt fill, and is burnt itself, possibly in the house fire. Was this another piece holding down a cover over the lentils, like the goat horns? Or is the relation to the lentil bin accidental? Only a few roots remain of the teeth, which may have broken off when it burned and gone with the surrounding unit (no bone has reached us from this unit, 1196). If they were lost earlier, it suggests the mandible was kept around for a while before deposition. There is no indication of tool use. 10 grams (ca. 14 fragments) of mandible (with no glue) removed for C14, 15/8/01. LM

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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