Unit 21769

Category: Cut    dug in 2015

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Burial cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Discussion: This is the cut of a double primary burial F. 7407 situated in the northern edge of the main platform (F. 3440). It was first identified in plan by a difference in color and in consistency of the soil from the infill, which was brown and looser than the series of make-up and plaster composing the main platform.

This cut was first thought to have a circular/oval shape in plan when the first skeleton (of a juvenile) was uncovered (U.21776). However, when a second individual (a neonate, U.21779) was identified in the northwestern edge of the cut, we started questioning whether there was one single interment event or, instead, two different deposits. Moreover, the boundaries of the cut towards south remained unclear during the whole process of excavation, so it was inferred that the infill containing the juvenile could be truncating a previous burial – the one containing the neonate.

After lifting the remains of the juvenile, we kept on tracing the layers of plaster that would define the boundaries of the cut (a few centimeters from the surface) by digging the section towards south. As the borders were found, the soil excavated in this southern portion of the cut was interpreted as burial infill, and it made more sense to understand the feature as one burial event containing two skeletons. 

Shape: Circular (looks like two circles intersected). 

Sides: Vertical. 

Base Break: Sharp. 

Base: Flat. 

Orientation: North-South. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 21779, 21776 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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