Unit 17697
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: TP
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: external; Deposition: coarsely bedded (dumps)
Dimensions: 3.60 x 3.50 x 0.06
Discussion: It was a midden situated below the western part of the Building 74 (space 325), the walls 17673 (S), 17638 (N), 17692 (W) and the midden 17671 in the central part of the trench. This midden was arbitrarly distinguished as located underneath the above mentioned structures and characterized by different heights from 0.05 to 0.20 m. It was homogeneous and contained a large number of organic material, mainly animal bones. Also its basal boundary was defined arbitrarly as the level of building 81 floor.
Recognition: colour, consisitency
Definition: midden below the walls(17673, 17638, 17642)
Execution: trowel
Condition: hot, windy
Consistency: friable
Colour: dark brown, black
Texture: silty sand
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: bones, pottery, obsidian
Post-depositional Features: roots
Basal Boundary: distinct
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 149
Total Deposit Volume: 173
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 30
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 25
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
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 Ceramics Data for 2008 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 32 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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