Unit 31888

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: fill of burial pit 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

Description: This is an infill of burial pit, which was located on eastern platform of the latest phase of B.150. 

Discussion: This is next infill of burial pit dug onto the eastern platform from the latest phase of B.150. The infill was homogenous and very deep. Its upper section contained numerous disarticulated and loose bones as well as obsidian and beads. The following sequence of articulated and disarticulated bones was found (from the latest event): skull (23783), skull (23956), skull (23903), mandible (23953), skull (23972), skeleton (23798), skull (32900), skull (23901), skull (23902), skull (32848), skull (32835) and the most intresting a skeleton (23799) of pregnant female along with a full-term fetus (23904).The soil of the Infill was very compact and hard. Numerous x-finds were found, in particular multicoloured beads, worked bones, obsidian points in additon to animal bones as well as blue and red pigment .A few beads were found on skeletons: (i) x42, x43 on the skeleton (23798) and (ii) bead (x56) and stone in hand of the skeleton (23799). 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: brown, orange, grey, black 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layer 

Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, human bones, animals bones, stones, pigment, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: distrubance by roots or animals 

Basal Boundary: arbitarary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 20794 

Dry sieve volume: 331 

Total Deposit Volume: 406 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 17

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 56

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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