Unit 13570

Category: Layer    dug in 2007

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)

 

Dimensions: 3.80 x 0.96 x 0.21 

 

Discussion: It is a thick midden layer between two parallel walls of W-E alignment (u. 13538, 13059). It is younger than both of them. This unit contained a huge amount of material including pottery, obsidian and especially animal bones. The deposit was rather homogeneous but its western part was more mixed at the bottom than the eastern one. 

 

Recognition: STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION 

Definition: MIDDEN BETWEEN WALLS 13059, 13538 

Execution: TROWEL 

Condition: DRY, HOT 

Consistency: FRIABLE 

Colour: BLACK 

Texture: SILTY SAND 

Bedding: MASSIVE 

Inclusions: CHARCOAL, BONES, POTTERY, OBSIDIAN, SHELL, CRISTAL 

Post-depositional Features: ROOTS 

Basal Boundary: DISTINCT, REGULAR 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 15232, 15231 below: (Click to view the record) 13564, 13565, 13542 equal to: (Click to view the record) 15217, 15220, 15222 

 

Dry sieve volume: 525 

Total Deposit Volume: 551 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 6

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: 7 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 72

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 428

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

Ceramics Data for 2007 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 546

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

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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