Unit 7957

Category: layer    dug in 2004

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: bin fill,platform packing 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: raised area (platform); Material: brick&mortar; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Description: full-on sampling 

 

Discussion: Tracking: Full-On.
This unit is very soft and appears to be the packing material of a truncated platform in the sw corner. This has a very high concentration of small animal bones and also had a cache of 6 small clay animal figurines (U.7958). Under the mandibles (x1,x2) there was a brown lense of phytoliths, which was samples (s3). It is possible that this matrix is the packing material under a platform that is visible in the south and west wall profiles (Sample 1, U.7916). This area is disturbed by rodents. It appears as if the truncated surface once covered this area but was not plastered (or did not surive). The original surface went against the south 'partition wall' but not underneath it. The fill/ packing was halted at an aribitrary level because it is out of phase with the rest of the space at this time. It looks as if the deposit will continue for several more cm across the entire area. Also, under the cache, possibly 2-3 cm, another plastered surface is beginning to emerge but the surface does not extend across the entire area and is probably of a much earlier phase (as it appears to run under the basin U.7950). The E-W arm at the north end of this unit appears to go over 7957 but the deposit looks the same on the north side (in U.7954) so maybe the arm is later and than the original 7957 deposit is the same in U.7954.
7957 was a priority unit with some very interesting results from the specialists, such as a high density of lithics (greatest concentration in space 100) and an unusual animal bone assemblage, including turtle, bird and fish. Several phytolith samples were taken from under large artefacts (bone and pot) because it is thought that maybe there was an underlying mat of sorts. There was also an extrememly high concentration of egg shell here and I could see 3 tiny caches where there was a 'whole' but crushed egg.

Thickness of unit estimated in PX (DE 18/07/09). 

 

Recognition: fill within plastered lines, possibly under a surface in sw corner 

Definition: by sw corner and and plastered bin lines to the east 

Execution: trowel and brush 

Condition: hot, shaded and irritated 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: mid-brown and orange brown 

Texture: mixed sandy silt and clayish silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: obsidian, clay ball, abundant animal bone, groundstone, bone tool, animal figurine cache 

Post-depositional Features: rodent, cultural 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 7969 below: (Click to view the record) 7938 equal to: (Click to view the record) 7958 

 

Dry sieve volume: 45 

Total Deposit Volume: 75 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 8

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 33 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 49

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 334

Features:: (Click to view the record) 4006 (platform)

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

Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 149

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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