Unit 20030

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Burial fill 

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

Discussion: We recognized this unit as separate, because we followed plaster layer on platform which was sloping. Plaster surface was gone and the consistency of soil was different than the other one. Was more compact and in other part more loose than layer above. Because of this sloping we also recognized differences between colour. U 20030 includes more dark and gray layer than plaster above. We expect that this layer could have many inclusions, because of organic remains, and geological remians.

Defined human bones in this fill. A right upper limb in articulation occured in the southern part of the pit. The capitulum had formed (and was recovered), so developmentaly this could belong to the mandible nerby and perhaps with the cranium of the northern margin of the pit as defined thus far. These suggest an age of perhaps about 6-7 years. The remains of an adult foot and especially the great toe of the right side lay on top of (directly) the cranium of this child. This foot appears to belong to the remains of an adult located in southern part of the pit (represented by a right hip). 

Consistency: compact- friable 

Colour: light gray 

Texture: sandy clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: organic remains (charcoral) 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow, insects hole 

Basal Boundary: N/A 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20036, 20034 below: (Click to view the record) 18992 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 52 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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