Unit 1350
Category: Cluster dug in 1996
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: bone cluster in pit
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Material: animal bone; Deposition: secondary deposition
Dimensions: 27 x 33 cm
Discussion: In this unit I have collected the clustered bones along the wall side. There were no interesting bone (marked, polished).
But I have given on X number to the horn, because it had traces of cut at its core. Behind the bone cluster, I have found the plastered wall.
For description see (1292-1296-1343).
Execution: Trowel
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Bedding: Same as 1292 , 1296 and 1343
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Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 23
Unit description: Smallish unit, although fairly sizable for B. 1. This is a cluster from pit F. 17, found along the wall. It is an interesting collection. Nearly all of it could potentially be from a single early juvenile sheep, although nothing actually articulates. The bones looked processed for marrow but probably not bone grease, and are in relatively large pieces. It is nothing like a complete animal, but there is a fair bit: long bone fragments, ribs, vertebrae, pelvis, a bit of skull. It seems to be all hind limb, where determinable. While the surfaces have weathered a bit from being near the surface, it is clear that they were originally very fresh. Two other items may not belong to the cluster: a fragment of a bone needle, and a crumbled chunk of antler. The antler is considerably more weathered than the rest of the unit, even allowing for its greater friability. It would probably have been a ca. 10 cm segment of beam before falling apart. I am not sure whether this is the 'horn' given an X number on the unit sheet; we have nothing labeled as such. The unit sheet mentions cuts, and it is possible this is shaped, but I am not convinced; I think it may just be worn and eroded. Setting aside the antler, needle bit, and perhaps a bit of tooth root, the sheep bones look like the remains of a single meal, moderately processed. It is reminiscent of the 'final meals' remains in abandonment deposits from e.g. B. 56. It certainly looks placed, and derived from a single event. As a cluster, there were no flotation samples, so this is the entire unit. The surrounding matrix is 1343. Very few indeterminates, and most or all look like crumbles off of other bones; all sheep-size Almost no burning, little or no gnawing and digestion.Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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