Unit 23728

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: Unit is fill within the cut U. 23720. The fill appears darker and mixed gray and orange color as well as different in consistency than the fill above (U. 23725) and was therefore easy to distinguish. The fill belongs to burial F.3889 from the northern platform F.8262 in B. 122. The fill is sitting on top of skeleton sk. 23751. Near the SW edge of the platform a black patch of layer with burnt animal bones was recognized. Moreover, in this part a couple of x- finds were found: x1- obsidian point, x2- point made of animal bone, x3- cluster of astragali, x4- bead, x5- separated astragalus.


At bottom of the burial fill an individual sk. 23751 was clear in articulation, oriented W-E and his body was sloping from E-W. near this individual skull a patch of red ochre was defined as <s3>.

In NW edge of this cut another individual was exposed and lifted as a sk. U 23754

Loose human bones was identified in the whole burial fill together with loose animal bones belonging mainly to sheep. 

Consistency: firm to loose and compact 

Colour: light and dark brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: chunk of plaster and charcol 

Post-depositional Features: animal disturbance 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 23751 below: (Click to view the record) 23725 equal to:none 

Dry sieve volume: 134 

Total Deposit Volume: 164 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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