Unit 21528

Category: Cut    dug in 2014

 

Area: North 

 

Interpretive Categories: Cut of burial pit in south-central part of space 

 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

 

Discussion: Burial cut under sequence of grey plaster floors and next to S wall os Sp.87. The top of a human cranium is visible. Unit not yet excavated.

Added in 2015:
Cut for burial pit containing an adult female skeleton and an infant placed on her chest. Rather shallow, so possibly the skeletons did not have much flesh on them by the time they were buried. From the top this burial cut seemed to be much larger than it actually is, extending towards the N. This was due to the homogeneously heterogeneous infill material and the difficulty in defining the S edge of the cut, which resulted to be immediately by the S wall, with the walls of the edge undercutting below it. There is no wall plaster on top of this pit, and it is likely that it was truncated in the Neolithic during the excavation of the burial pits.
During excavation we resolved that the N part of what we thought was U.21528 was in fact another cut (a cut truncating another cut), shallower and probably later than the current unit. As a result, both infills have been mixed, constituting U.21527.
Floor sequences are visible towards the top of the burial pit section with the exception of the W section, where a sequence of what appears to be baked floors (in situ) has been identified and sampled for micromorphology. It is hypothesised that this was an earlier fire installation that was later heavily truncated. 

 

Shape: Square 

Sides: Irregular, shifting from convex to concave (the latter especially towards S wall undercut) 

Base Break: Gradual to sharp (the latter in E and N sides) 

Base: Concave 

Orientation: E-W 

All Layers within: (Click to view the record) 21527 (infill), 21571 (adult sk.), 30006 (infant sk.) 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21572 below: (Click to view the record) 21527 

 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 114

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 87

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7615 (burial)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2014 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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