Unit 20215

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: midden 

Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building

Dimensions: 0.6m EW x 1m NS x 0.14m depth 

Discussion: This is a midden located underneath the remains of building 115 that was placed south of trench 1 and truncated badly in post-Neolithic times. It is chronologically situated inbetween building 115 and the older building 110. Therefore, it has a very secure stratigraphic position. Because of an abundance of charcoal and organic material, this midden was chosen for careful paleobotanical examination. For this purpose it has arbitrarily been divided into 2 parts: upper (recorded as 20215 A) and lower (recorded as 20215 B). Samples were taken in each part. The midden contained a large amount of animal bones (including worked bones), and surprisingly not much pottery. A headless female figurine was found and recorded as x1. This midden is thought to be the same midden recorded as unit 20126.

X12(clay disc), X5(clay object), X9(clay ball) - delated from x finds list because found during dry sieving. CM 

Recognition: color, stratigraphic position 

Definition: defined as sitting under remains of building 115 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, hot 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: black 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: large amount of animal bones, obsidian, pottery, phytoliths, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: badly disturbed by animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: even 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20232 below: (Click to view the record) 20511 equal to: (Click to view the record) 20126 

Dry sieve volume: 200 

Total Deposit Volume: 261 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 17

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 28

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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

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