Unit 21660

Category: Layer    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Midden deposit 

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

Discussion: In an attempt to better facilitate the excavation of the midden, it was decided that lenses of clay instead of charcoal should be used as unit dividers. U21660 started on a diffuse charcoal layer and consisted of mixed layers of charcoal, soot, ash, and clay lenses with inclusions of household refuse such as bone, obsidian, and some clay balls. As the midden is situated between two exterior walls of two separate buildings (B. 132 and B. 52), and the midden abuts both walls, it can almost certainly be said that the midden is more or less contemporary with these buildings and walls and that it might contain refuse from these buildings (and perhaps more). In terms of attempting to map the seasonality of the midden buildups, the eggshells suggest that at least part of what belongs to U21660 was deposited in early-mid spring. 

Consistency: Soft/friable 

Colour: Grey, black, yellow, brown, orange 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Compound layered (ash, clay, pieces of mud brick, charcoal) 

Inclusions: Charcoal 20%, bone 1%, clay 20%, mud brick fragments 5%) 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic, abrupt, prominent 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21661 below: (Click to view the record) 21659 

Dry sieve volume: 220 

Total Deposit Volume: 249 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 9

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

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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