Unit 20472

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Midden arbitrary layer 

Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building; Deposition: finely bedded

Dimensions: 2,6m NS x 2,6m EW x 0,2 deep 

Discussion: Unit 20472 was an arbitrary layer in the midden. We followed a clay layer of midden, being the basal boundary of U.19486, removed it and the underlying layers of midden in the whole space up to the wall F. 3679 in the N and cut U.20439 in the E, up to a depth of about 0.2m in the unit. The layer was very heterogeneous. The thin clay layer was a few centimetres thick in the southern part of the arbitrary layer; it was full of burnt, large clay lumps in the northern half. Below it we encountered different parts of the midden (which were mostly discontinuous). A brownish/dark orange layer was full of charcoal with a couple depositions of hackberry (up to 20cm in diameter), a blackish ashy layer with fine worked bone tools, and a light grey powdery, ashy layer. 

Recognition: Arbitrary layer of midden different colour than around. 

Definition: Up to walls in S and N, up to section wall in W, up to cut in E 

Execution: trowel, hoe 

Condition: dry and hot 

Consistency: loose in the S and firm in the N 

Colour: mixed layered, light yellow, light grey, blackish, and light brown lenses 

Texture: clay, silty clay, ash 

Bedding: layered, yellowish clay layer at the top, few centimeters thick in the S, and about 15cm in the S with ashy lenses, light grey brown and blackish layers under it, of varying thickness and size 

Inclusions: abundancy of charcoal and ashy inclusions in all layers except the clay layer (which contained burnt clay inclusions of sizes up to 12cm, as well as medium sized burnt oven pieces). All layers contained lots of artefacts (obsidian, worked bone and clay objects) and organic inclusions (bones and hackberry) 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows, plant roots 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20487 below: (Click to view the record) 19486, 20465 

Dry sieve volume: 960 

Total Deposit Volume: 1009 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 19

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 3

Number of Related Diary Entries: 3

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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