Unit 3533

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: fill of F.607,midden,room fill 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Dimensions: 20cm x 60cm x 40 cm 

 

Discussion: Cleared SW corner, turned out to be a niche-like structure filled with ashy soil and lots of burnt tubers. Some bones and few obsidian pieces. The niche is about 32 cm deep which means it cuts of wall (west) unit 3537. Niche roof of orange clay with a thin layer of white plaster to smoothen the inside face. The northern side/face of niche has been taken out last year. Now there is only 1-2 cm left of this niche wall. The inside plaster could have been added when the later phase was made - to smoothen any irregularities. 

 

Recognition: molded plaster whitish grey, a possible niche 

Definition: by plaster layer made up against the walls in a corner 

Execution: excavated by leaftrowel 

Condition: a little dry 

Consistency: loose with leaf trowel 

Colour: 10 YR 4/1 dark grey 

Texture: silty loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: artefactual - obsidian, organic-shell, bone, burned seeds, flecks 20% 

Post-depositional Features: disturbed by roots 

Basal Boundary: clear wavy anthropic boundary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 3550 

 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 3

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 158

Features:: (Click to view the record) 607 (niche/bin)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 107  Unit description: A small unit from a niche in space 158, thought to be part of the same midden with feasting remains (2250) excavated from the southern end of this space in 1998. Scrappy, poorly preserved bone with few iDs. Some low temperature burning. Approximately equal amounts of sheep-size and large mammal. identifiable body parts about equally divided among long bones, ribs, and skull. Doesn't resemble my memory of the midden from this space last year. Poor preservation may be due to proximity to surface. Perhaps it is only catching an edge of it, but no sense of integrity, certainly nothing that suggests feasting. Could be low levels of daily post-consumption discard, or more secondary redeposited material. Sample 1 4mm flotation sorted 100%, recorded completely. Large sample, most of the unit probably here. Some large pieces, but mostly pretty fragmented. Maybe a little more sheep-size than large mammal. Includes sheep/goat and equid. Fairly even body part distribution, but short on large mammal vertebrae and all feet below the ankle. Some burning, mostly low temperature. Rather weathered, some digestion. A little fish, microfauna, mussel shell, and possibly bird. Still looks like daily post-consumption discard; feasting doesn't appear in this part of the deposit. Last number = 107

Figurine Records: Yes Count of records::none

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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