Unit 20215
Category: Layer dug in 2012
Area: TPC
Interpretive Categories: midden
Data Category Information: Location: in abandoned building
Dimensions: 0.6m EW x 1m NS x 0.14m depth
Discussion: This is a midden located underneath the remains of building 115 that was placed south of trench 1 and truncated badly in post-Neolithic times. It is chronologically situated inbetween building 115 and the older building 110. Therefore, it has a very secure stratigraphic position. Because of an abundance of charcoal and organic material, this midden was chosen for careful paleobotanical examination. For this purpose it has arbitrarily been divided into 2 parts: upper (recorded as 20215 A) and lower (recorded as 20215 B). Samples were taken in each part. The midden contained a large amount of animal bones (including worked bones), and surprisingly not much pottery. A headless female figurine was found and recorded as x1. This midden is thought to be the same midden recorded as unit 20126.
X12(clay disc), X5(clay object), X9(clay ball) - delated from x finds list because found during dry sieving. CM
Recognition: color, stratigraphic position
Definition: defined as sitting under remains of building 115
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry, hot
Consistency: friable
Colour: black
Texture: silty sand
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: large amount of animal bones, obsidian, pottery, phytoliths, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: badly disturbed by animal burrows
Basal Boundary: even
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 200
Total Deposit Volume: 261
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 17
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 28
Number of Related Diary Entries: 4
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 2012 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 323 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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