Unit 32080

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor-use 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mix (dark grey&white); Deposition: multiple; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: An arbitrarily grouped floors with allied make-up layers had been recorded under separate unit number U.32080. The location of the latter refers to the central part of Sp.531 which was surrounded to the West and East by protruded areas of platforms (respectively F.7733 and F.7734). Southern limit of the exploration unit constituted raised position of a low linear ridge (of EW alignment) that clearly denoted a difference in functional use of the southern segment of the room, related with the presence of fire installations.
The presented deposit comprised of diverse number of layers that varied also in thickness from 0.5 cm up to 2,5cm. Worth noticing and emphasizing is that the characteristic of the floors recognized in the central part of the room did not share any resemblance with others plastered surfaces laid on the platforms within the mentioned interior. The evidenced layers that coated horizontally described part of Sp.531 had no commonly recognized clear division between subsequent laminations of white plaster and allied make-up. Important insights into the nature of portrayed here deposits were provided by the examination of edges within several pit-cuts within whom dominated role had light-brown and beige make-ups. As regards to the plastered floors they were extremely difficult to identify. Their thin laminations were difficult to recognized and they did not represent continuous sequences. The latter circumstances had been explained during the exploration of grouped layers of unit 32080. It appeared that the plastered surfaces had been only represented by badly preserved patchy white-coatings whose exposition revealed discontinuous lighter patches within beige make-up layers.
The presented circumstances imply intensive use of the floors in the central part of the room that caused extensive tearing out and ripping the surface already in the phase of its occupation. In order to make clear in the nature of the proceedings that took place on the spot there had been several samples collected to facilitate further analyzes concerning in particular the presence of phytoliths.
From stratygraphical point of view the unit 32080 can be related with others explored layers within the interior (which can be enumerated here as follow: 32075, 32081, 32076). 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mid-beige, light-brown 

Texture: clay, silty-clay 

Bedding: layered 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32090 below: (Click to view the record) 32033 

Dry sieve volume: 75 

Total Deposit Volume: 108 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

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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