Unit 8466

Category: layer    dug in 2002

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: floor and packing 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: This unit comprises floor(s) and packing in the NE part of the kitchen.

I. Before excavating this unit, situation was like this (see U. 8445):
In NE quarter of the kitchen area we had gray and white floor sutface, cracked and damaged, which constituted mostly of salts and gypsum (not a spot of white paster or something similar). In southern half of kitchen there are thick layers of 2 floors and 2 packings (especially between F. 799 and F. 778), which had to level the living floor (the same kind of deposits were removed in this area within U. 8445). East of oven F. 778 and closer to remaing stripes of white plaster floors and brown and orange packings (probably continuation of floors fromm central area F. 606) we had reddish-brown and black mixture of burnt or heated silty clay. North of oven F. 778 we still have slips of floor lipping up the oven.

II. In this unit we first removed that gray/white damaged floor in NE quadrant, which consisted of gypsum and salt, and thin red/orange packing underneath. We found a set of set of 7 mini clay balls as part of floor consruction, several traces of ochre and phytoliths. After removing this layer, new white and gray surface was revealed, again cracked and destroyed. Apart from that a regular white stripe of salts and gypsum appeared, which came out to be a new floor, attached to F. 792 (in a form of a basin) and to a small step (entrance). This line visible iin the basal boundary of this unit stretches towards W - up to the layer of red and black silty burnt clay, which was also removed in this unit. In this part (SE of oven F. 778) an arbitrary distinction between the layers was established.
Closer to the ridge between F. 606 and kitchen, 2 floors and 2 packing stripes were removed, reaching the level of a floor #17 in F. 606. The packing (and floor remains) that make the ridge will be removed in a sepaate unit (#8485).
First building phase of the house is now reached in kitchen.
Photo numbers:
20020625_JPQ_075/086 - clay ball cluster, phytolits, ochre
20020625_JPQ_108/116 - cut F. 791 

Recognition: by consistensy, arbitrary 

Definition: clear to diffuse 

Execution: trowel, Mira tool 

Condition: dry to a bit moist 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8449, 8445 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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