Unit 1507
Category: cluster dug in 1996
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: bones
Data Category Information: Material: animal bone; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: charcoal
Dimensions: 0.6m x 0.4m
Discussion: A group of bones surrounding and overlying a cattle scapula (young animal)-see plan. Beneath the scapula were a few small bone pieces and a deposit of charcoal. The cluster as a whole was associated with soil rich in coprolites, charcoal and plant silicates within the midden deposit 1505.
Execution: trowels (various sizes)
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Bedding: (see 1505)
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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: 1
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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:: 42
Unit description: This is a cluster within midden 1505, with a complete and extraordinarily well-preserved infantile cattle scapula at its base. It also includes some meaty pieces of a young equid, as well as some less meaty parts of an older equid and some miscellaneous bits that look like they may be more part of the surrounding midden, although maybe some large fragments of sheep/goat tibia also belong. The pieces that seem to form a coherent set are minimally processed. It looks like an event, although, as usual, the remains here are partial. It is not clear that this is a 'special' deposit in terms of its treatment, but may simply be a dump of feasting remains, perhaps the bit that one household brought home. Surfaces are very fresh, although a bit degraded from being relatively near the surface of the mound. Little or no burning or digestion. Fragment size is large, but this was probably hand-picked as a cluster. As a cluster, it also lacks a flotation sample. One bird bone may or may not be integral to the cluster. There are few long bone shaft fragments and slightly more ribs. Some vertebrae, most apparently more or less complete in the ground but now crumbled. Diagnostics are spread through the body, and there is a certain amount of skull and what may be originally a single maxilla fragment, but no teeth. Feet are fewer than usual, with the emphasis on the meaty parts. There is an articulating carpal set, and the cattle scapula has its unfused coracoid, so certainly rapidly buried and little disturbance.Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
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