Unit 20989

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial

Discussion: Burial fill that contains skeleton u.20685. This skeleton was partially exposed during 2011 and left in situ until 2013 - A foot and humeus and part of the cranium were already exposed. The fill was also partially removed at this time. The fill itself is a typical burial infill with small specs of charcoal and plaster and quite a bit of phytolith. The fill contained a number of "special" finds such as stone beads, shell beads, obsidian etc. Some parts of the basal boundary contained an orangish material which might correlate with a rich organic contect - possibly left over body tissue.
No plan - see cut.
Note that the dentillium beads were wrapped around a wrist that cut into the platform which very well could be the wrist of skeleton 20685. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Grayish brown 

Texture: Silty clay loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: some organic residue (orange specs), pytoliths, small charcoal pieces 

Post-depositional Features: salt flecks, root activity, animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20685 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 16 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 8

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:

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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