Unit 8880

Category: Cluster    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: cluster of skulls 

Data Category Information: Location: midden; Material: animal bone; Deposition: secondary deposition

Dimensions: W-E 120 cm; N-S 45 cm 

Description: medium track 

Discussion: 1 - westernmost skull
2 - middle skull
3 - easternmost skull
4 - long bone (fragment)

Cluster discovered while excavating U. 8877 - arbitrary layer of midden in sp. 226. It appears to be dumped directly on top of a supporting wall N2 against the main S wall of sp. 226. Interestingly, supporting wall N1 or more precisely one of its protruding bricks was laid directly on top of 2 skulls, crushing them. Was this a feast in honour of construction of a new wall???
Feed-back from the faunal specialists:
After a more detailed study in the lab Rissa reconsidered her previous observations and thinks that the cluster consists most probably of one skull of a cow with a pair of horn-cores, chopped into pieces and dumped into the midden 

Recognition: skulls in midden against S wall of sp.226 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, precise tools 

Condition: moderately dry 

Consistency: N/A 

Colour: N/A 

Texture: N/A 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: N/A 

Post-depositional Features: salts 

Basal Boundary: flat, constructional, on top of supporting wall 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:F1458below: (Click to view the record) 8869 equal to:F1459

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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