Unit 4978
Category: layer dug in 1999
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: floor surfaces, make-up and occupation debris
Data Category Information: Location: building; Description: general; Material: mixed; Deposition: composite (floor/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)
Dimensions: 1.6m (E-W), 1.53m (N-S), 0.16m deep
Discussion: 4978 was a compound layer of floors and occupation debris in the south east corner of building 23/ space178. It underlay the thin partition 4970 that separated 'clean' and 'dirty' areas in the southern half of the building and was probably contemporary to the use of the ovens F533 and F534. The layer was fairly thin to the west and may only have incorporated a single floor layer and its associated occupation debris. To the east, a large area of mixed clayey material formed a thick levelling deposit directly beneath this floor.
Consistency: mainly friable, but firm towards ther east
Colour: varied between lenses - deep greyish-brown over much of the area, mottled yellowish-brown to the east, pale ashy grey in places and patches of pale greyish white
Texture: Varied between lenses - mainly ashy clay-silt and clay to the east
Bedding: compound layered
Inclusions: varied between lenses - included charcoal, plaster, shell, obsidian, bone, phytoliths, clay and coprolite
Post-depositional Features: heavy salt encrustation in places
Basal Boundary: sharp, smooth and distinct, sloping from south to north and from west to east
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 15
Total Deposit Volume: 43
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 39
Unit description: Seems like daily processing area (midden?). At the flotation sample (sample #2) diagnostic pieces (two lumbars, sacrum, a unfused first phalanx, a metatarsal, a metapodial, ribs, fragments of long bones and a piece of skull, and some teeth fragments) can be observed as much as little fragmented pieces. Also there are some burned pieces which does not exist at the dry sieve material.Figurine Records: No 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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