Unit 31888

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

 

Area: TPC 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: fill of burial pit 

 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: homogeneous

 

Description: This is an infill of burial pit, which was located on eastern platform of the latest phase of B.150. 

 

Discussion: This is next infill of burial pit dug onto the eastern platform from the latest phase of B.150. The infill was homogenous and very deep. Its upper section contained numerous disarticulated and loose bones as well as obsidian and beads. The following sequence of articulated and disarticulated bones was found (from the latest event): skull (23783), skull (23956), skull (23903), mandible (23953), skull (23972), skeleton (23798), skull (32900), skull (23901), skull (23902), skull (32848), skull (32835) and the most intresting a skeleton (23799) of pregnant female along with a full-term fetus (23904).The soil of the Infill was very compact and hard. Numerous x-finds were found, in particular multicoloured beads, worked bones, obsidian points in additon to animal bones as well as blue and red pigment .A few beads were found on skeletons: (i) x42, x43 on the skeleton (23798) and (ii) bead (x56) and stone in hand of the skeleton (23799). 

 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: brown, orange, grey, black 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layer 

Inclusions: pottery, obsidian, human bones, animals bones, stones, pigment, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: distrubance by roots or animals 

Basal Boundary: arbitarary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 20794 

 

Dry sieve volume: 331 

Total Deposit Volume: 406 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 17

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 56

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Buildings: (Click to view the record)

150 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

594 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

3868 (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 2017 still to be released
Clay Object Records: No
Chipped Stone Records: No
Conservation Recorded: No
Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 43 
Figurine Records: No
GroundStone Records: No
Heavy Residue Records: No
Microfaunal Records: No
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Phytolith Sample: No
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