Unit 32453

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Dirty Floor 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: multiple; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: Layer exposed after remove another floor above (U32405) in the fire installation area. We remove at least 5 different layers in the same unit, all of them around 0.02 m thick. The color of the layers in that floor alternate grey with brown (so we documented at least two brown (make up??) and three grey layers). During the process of the digging all this layers appear different artefacts that we start to X find. After a while, we realize that all of them where around the ladder installation, there was 7 elements, 6 tools (stone, obsidian and flint) and 1 articulated bone (the description of the specialists are below). Since we remove one by one all of them, we decided that was a bit late to give it a cluster number because anything was in situ already. Unfortunately the process of the digging don’t give us the possibility to expose all of them at the same time and we don’t know exactly at witch of all this 5 layers belong, and if all of them was sitting on the same layer. Anyway, for sure all of them was deposit in this 0.10 cm layer that we dig in once.
This tools had a special particularities, as you can read in the lines below, and all of them was deposit around the ladder installations. We, and also the specialist think that was obviously deposit on porpoise, and the fact than there are around the ladder, makes think us that can be related with a retrieval process to change the ladder installations.
X1-X2 Stone Axe and adze, that show evidence for complex and prolonged biographies as both have gone through different episodes of use and re-use. The adze has traces of red color staining (possible ochre) on its surface and plaster and was reused for a grinding activity. In the case of the axe, only the cutting edge and a small part of the body survives. The fractured edge has been re-used for grinding/polishing activities. All beads show evidence for heavy use before deposition,
X3- Articulated Bos radial and intermediate carpal.
X4 - Flint is a dark red almost black limnoquartzite (?) mottled with lighter red patches and a few pinkish white splotches (probably invasive cortex) of medium to high quality. It is a somewhat thick non standardized blade, probably via direct percussion, with a twisted and undulating profile. It has been used as a piece esquillee (wedge for splitting wood or bone) on the transverse axis, with the right edge used as striking platform and the left as the working edge. Slightly retouched along left working edge (likely not from use) to shape it into a rounded edge for best use as wedge
X5- Flint is a light brown homogenous radiolarite (silicified mudstone) of high quality
It is a thick flake (indirect percussion?) from an opposed platform core (though it is not standardized with any visible ridges) that has been split down the middle (longitudinally from proximal to distal end) creating a natural backing for the cutting edge on the left edge, which has been minorly retouched on the dorsal face only
X6- Obsidian is from Gollu Dag (potentially Kayirli, but can't say until cleaned). It is either a thick semi standardized blade, or a blade core that has been split in half, via direct percussion. Potentially used as a wedge on the debitage/morphological axis, with the proximal end used as the striking platform and the distal end used as the working edge. Will know more once cleaned in 2017
X7- Obsidian is from Kaletepe Gollu Dag. It is the rounded base of a projectile made on a thick triangular blade of triangular cross section, likely made via indirect percussion and imported from elsewhere as a blank and retouched into a spearhead onsite. It is unshouldered, with bifacial continuous parallel retouch on both faces that alternates between medial and invasive. About 10-15% of the original blank surface has been preserved/not retouched on both the dorsal and ventral faces 

Consistency: Very coimpact 

Colour: Dark grey 

Texture: Clay and silt 

Bedding: Layered (At least 5 difrent layers) 

Inclusions: Charcoal (more than 20%) natural stones, 

Post-depositional Features: levelling 

Basal Boundary: Abrupt 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32456 below: (Click to view the record) 32405 equal to: (Click to view the record) 32404 

Total Deposit Volume: 39 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 12

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): IX 

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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