Unit 19879

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial fill,burial infill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Discussion: This layer is localized on the highest platform. İts colour is homogeneus, brownish gray, but in the southern part it seems to be more pure than in the northern part. The surface is flat and there are a lot of inclusions of plaster and charcoal.
We have found many bones, not connected among them. In the central part of the layer there is a concentration of teeth belonging to a child. We also found a lot of little rings made of shell (ca 20-30) probably related to a braclet or a necklace and maybe connected to buiıal iıfts.
This unit is a burial fill and it is cut by a retrieval pit (u.19880) localized in the north-west part, probably aimed to remove some bones (maybe a skull?) from the burıal.
28/07/13 Th ecut 19880 is a burial cut not a retrieval pit!
The unit was excavated by leaf-trowel. 

 

Consistency: mid compact 

Colour: brownish-gray 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 10 % plaster, 20 % charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: diffuse 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19886 below: (Click to view the record) 19880 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 152 

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

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 76, 89

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 368, 379

Features:: (Click to view the record) 3479 (burial)

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 2013 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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