Unit 20480
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: Burial Infill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous
Discussion: The burial fill was easy to see in relation to the surrounding deposits due to its darker color. The fill itself was soft and easy to remove, but also very deep, over 1/2 meter in some places.The top 0.25m or so contained a medium amount of bone and obsidian pieces while the lower half of the deposit was nearly sterile of any kind of finds. Additionally, the basal boundary of this fill was rather uneven, as it consisted of a fasle brick bottom (U. 20499) which had collapsed along the center of the cut, which suggests that the skeleton below the bricks had been placed in a wooden box which had caused the collapse upon decomposition. The deepness of the fill sugests less erosion and therefore a well preserved burial. The stone axe was found in the upper part of the fill and resembles 2 other stone axe heads found nearby in sp. 99.
Recognition: Color, texture, darker and looser than surrounding
Definition: sharp, defined boundaries of cut
Execution: trowel, brush
Condition: dry on top, moist farther down
Consistency: soft
Colour: dark brown
Texture: silty clay loam
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: bone, obsidian flakes, small charcoal flakes
Post-depositional Features: animal activity, roots, small amount of insect activity, salts
Basal Boundary: sharp wavy anthropic (basal boundary=bricks U. 20499)
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 560
Total Deposit Volume: 590
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: Yes
Count of records::none 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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