Unit 12543

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: grave fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial

Discussion: Neolithic infant/neonate burial fill. The burial was disturbed during excavation such that the head was displaced. The left shoulder was also displaced. The burial position was somewhat unusual because of the change of the body from on the left side in the upper body to the back. In addition, the extended right arm was striking as were the flexed legs. A yellow residue was found in the thoracic region, much like the othe rneonate (Sk 12506) found to the north in the same space. Possible phytoliths were found in the lower levels of the skeleton. The burial fill was differentiated from the surrounding soils by the high concentration of salts.


Dimensions roughly calculated. EGW 22 July 2009 

Recognition: colour, texture 

Definition: within cut (12544), slightly diffuse 

Execution: trowel, leaf trowel, brush 

Condition: dry 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: greyish brown 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: obsidian, animal bone, shell, charcoal, salts, brick 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance 

Basal Boundary: yellowish soil, hardened surface absent of human bones 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12542 below: (Click to view the record) 12541 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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