Unit 32201

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial infill 

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

Discussion: Infill 32201 refers to burial F3810, which is situated in the southern side of platform F3811 (space 154). 32201 is covered by another infill (22199), that differs from 32201 because the first one has a higher percentage of salt inclusions. 32201 covers skeleton 32205.
The infill contains many disarticulated bones that might belong to a juvenile individual (most likely one person but the hypothesis has to be verified) different from Sk32205. Other than this, the infill also contains some shell's fragments (grave items?) and random phytholits concentrations (wrapping?).
One hypothesis is that the deposition of Sk32205 might have intercepted an underlying earlier burial: in this case its content (fragmented bones+shells+phytholits) might have been dismembered and dispersed into 32201. Another possibility is that the bones in 32201 belong to an ealier burial located somewhere else, whose content has been dismembered and put into F3810 infil.
In both cases the content of an earlier burial has been dispersed in the infill of burial F 3810.
Considering that at the bottom of F3810 the skull of a child (32208) has been found and that it does not seem connected to other bones, the first hypothesis seems to me the most plausible one.
Into the infill, close to the south-western corner of the burial (west from the head of Sk32205), some organic rests have been found (S4): they probably belong to a carbonaised piece of wood, most likely part of a wooden ball (further analyses needed).
From infill 32201, also another sample (S3) has been taken (along the eastern side of Sk32205): the porpuse is to mesure the Ph level of the soil in order to understand if there is any connection between this data and the terrible conditions of Sk32205 bones. 

Consistency: firm in the upper part (up to -35 cm from top of the unit); smooth in the lower part (from -35 to -54 cm from the top of the unit) 

Colour: brownish-red in the upper part; dark grey in the lower part 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: massive (the smoothness of the lower part of the infill is due to the bones presence) 

Inclusions: charcol (small; 2%); phytholits (small and medium; 2%); clay aggregates (medium; 5%) 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: change in accumulated deposit, gradual, faint, wavy, flat, uneven 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32205 below: (Click to view the record) 22199 

Total Deposit Volume: 266 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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