Unit 22656

Category: Cluster    dug in 2015

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: New type glume wheat spikelets 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Material: seeds; Deposition: primary deposition; Basal Spit: phytolith

Description: A deposit of new type glume wheat spikelets (4 pure liters after sieving and sorting) with chaff preserved, piled thickest against the north wall (F. 7711). In some places, the heat was high enough that the grains and chaff had turned to phytolith. 

Discussion: This deposit of pure wheat grains was found underneath a layer of collapse and room fill that was extremely high in charcoal content. The wheat was preserved in spikelet form, and became apparent as a pure deposit of grains against the north wall. At the bottom of the grains was found a juvenile human femur, 22642.X1, which is a remarkable variation on the more typical animal bones or other objects found at the bottom of storage bins. The wheat was found with chaff intact, evidence of it being placed here for storage rather than in a post-processing form. The wheat in this cluster was a uniform variety, and was collected by Lara Gonzalez Carretero and Allison Mickel. The totality of the unit was collected as a sample and sieved in the archaeobotany lab. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 22642 below: (Click to view the record) 22638 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 18 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 11

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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