Unit 19724

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Burial infill 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 0,65 EW x 0,46 NS x 0,31 depth 

 

Discussion: We excavated the infill of a burial cut. Above the outline of the cut there was a pretty thick layer of plaster (u. 19723), which we removed before getting to the infill. At the top of the infill we found pieces of bone and a bit of obsidian. After the first few centimeters we found nothing except bits of shiny shell for some time (until about 15 cm in). Then we encountered phytoliths and a bit of bone, which we thought could be a baby in a basket. In fact we had a child likely wrapped in a mat. The burial infill was somewhat multicolored for the first centimeters (brown, orange spots, black spots), then it became a mid brown-grey color of a friable to firm consistency. At the bottom it had a clay-like texture and was a mid/dark brown with white specks. 

 

Recognition: Shape, colour, consistency 

Definition: Clear 

Execution: Trowel, leaf trowel 

Condition: Hot, dry 

Consistency: Friable to firm 

Colour: Mid brown, grey 

Texture: Sandy silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Bones, shell, obsidian, human bones, phytoliths 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: Pretty clear 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19726 below: (Click to view the record) 19723 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 53 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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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Buildings: (Click to view the record) 96

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 370

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7002 (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

Ceramics Data for 2012 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

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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