Unit 17617

Category: Layer    dug in 2008

 

Area: TP 

 

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Interpretive Categories: infill,midden 

 

Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: alluviated dumps

 

Dimensions: 0.90 x 1.80 x 0.39 

 

Discussion: It is a part of a huge midden placed in N part of the area excavated in 2008. Its exploration was complicated as its part were placed underneath several walls(11583,12237,15889) oriented NS in this part of the trench. However, during the exploration it became clear that the unit 17617 was identical with already defined adjacent midden (15895, 17603, 15887) as regards their depositional history. Stratigraphically, the midden 17617 was placed on white and well preserved floor 17618 of B81.
This relation implies that the midden was deposited just after the abandonment of the B 81. Due to the recorded sloping surface(S,SE) of the midden, it seems that the entire deposit was truncated by some kind of activities which additionally destroyed SW part of the floor 17618 of B81. This irregular cut was later filled in by compact midden deposit rec as u.17637. 

 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: midden underneath the wall 15889 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot 

Consistency: soft, friable 

Colour: multicoloured 

Texture: silty clay, silty sand 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, cristal, obsidian, flint, shell 

Post-depositional Features: rodents 

Basal Boundary: constructional ( floor 17618), distinct 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 17618 below: (Click to view the record) 17637 equal to: (Click to view the record) 15887, 15895, 17603 

 

Dry sieve volume: 530 

Total Deposit Volume: 550 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 420

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 2008 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 1

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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