Unit 1364

Category: layer    dug in 1996

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: burial fill,pit fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Dimensions: 0.52 x 0.24 x 0.12 m 

 

Discussion: At the top of the pit, we found some bones, charred remains and tiny red paint piece. When we went down, a cluster of bone appeared. After cleaning, we realised that X4,X5,X6,X7 and X8 were the pieces of a hand bone. In the middle of these bones, a tooth was found (X2).The south of these bones, and the west of the pit (X1), a rib bone was found. And the beneath of (X1) we found another bone (X8). We put all these bones in separate bags in another big bag.
We reached the bottom of the 1364 at the point of 1012.617.Thickness of the fill is about 6 cm.
8/9/96; continued dig up. We found some human bones but it was very top level.
8/9/96; dig up was continued.
10/9/96; Stone, obsidian, burnt clay were found.
11/9/96; Skeleton is coming. We left it for anthropologists.
This is clear several fills/re-cut of the same pit, which haven't been recognised in excavation; much of this is probably part of the latest at & fill; however at least one earlier cut has been subsequently recognised cut at the level of the sub-floor packing, sealed by floors (1459)=GML 16/9/96. 

 

Execution: Trowel 

Condition: Dry and sunny 

Consistency: Very firm 

Colour: 10YR 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: Granular 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Bones, charred remains, tiny painted floor or wall pieces, plaster remains, burnt and unburnt mudbrick fragment 0.3 -2 cm 1% 

Post-depositional Features: Roots 

Basal Boundary: Partly sharp and vertically cut but towards bottom it gets gentle slope 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1465 below: (Click to view the record) 1358, 1359, 1295, 1369, 1375 

 

Dry sieve volume: 75 

Total Deposit Volume: 149 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 14

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 40

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: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 110

Features:: (Click to view the record) 29 (burial)

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:: 70  Unit description: Small unit with bits of animal bone mixed with copious human bone. Much of the human bone has a distinctive dark brown color not shared by the animal bone, although a few human pieces are lighter. The animal bone is somewhat variable in color, but mostly light brown when unburnt. There is some burning, mostly not too intense. Mostly sheep-size taxa, but a few fragments of large mammal. Sample 3 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recoreded completely. Human phalanx removed without recording. Otherwise mostly sheep-size scrap, little crumbles. Mostly rather weathered and rolled. Looks like fill. Sample 6 >4mm flotation 100% sorted and recorded completely. With large quantities of human bone removed (not recorded), this sample is smallish, and contains mostly fairly small fragments of sheep-size scrap. All body areas represented except for feet. Some digestion, fair amount of low temperature burning. Except for a couple of tooth roots, the human bone in this sample is not burnt. Quite fragmented. Weathering somewhat variable, mostly rather rolled/kicked around. Looks like fill. Sample 7 >4mm flotation 100% sorted, recorded completely. This sample consisted almost entirely of crumbles of human bone, some of it burnt. This was removed without recording. This left three little bits of scrap and a sheep/goat tarsal, all burnt to varying degrees at low temperatures. The tarsal is quite fresh; the others seem rather rolled. Looks like a little bit of fill sifting down into the burial. Last number = 69

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 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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