| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
|---|---|
| Hodder Level Designation(s) | IST.UNASSIGNED |
| Recording | Fully recorded |
| Year | 2006 |
| Description | X1 is a point fragment. X2 is an antler lozenge. X5 is a point on an equid lateral metapodial. X162 and X163 are bone points. X133 and X80 appear to have been lost in transit - only the labels were found. LH 29.07.06 The dry-sieved assemblage is moderately large, and has predominantly sheep-size fragments, which are in moderate condition. There are some cattle-sized fragments. The body part representation can only really be discussed for sheep-size fragments. Whilst all parts are represented, there is only a little rib and vertebral material and notably only one humerus fragment, yet a high number of tibias. The long bone and rib (but not articulations or smaller compact bone) is fragmented from 2 to 3 cm mainly, i.e. there are not any highly fragmented small pieces. Apart from diagnostic sheep, goat, and cattle there are only a few pieces of equid and of dog-size carnivore. There are 3 young human bones - long bones and skull fragments, but not bird or micromammal. There is some young cattle and some neonate caprine material. This appears to be true of the flot, too. There is remarkably little burning and surface condition is good to moderate. Whilst there is some digestion and gnawing, these other factors suggest quite fresh secondary deposit that has not been exposed or reworked much. This evidence is also the basis for suggesting an element of coherence, at least as a single midden source. There are three pieces that are worked in the dry sieve fraction. The priority feedback comments on the initial interpretation of a surface that might be an activity area. However the X finds taken from this surface all seem to be part of the whole assemblage, dry sieved and flot, and so the feedback interpretation that there is not a surface activity area is supported by this FUD. Looks like a somewhat degraded midden, probably because it has lain near the surface for a while. DCO 2.8.6. There are also some foetal/neonate human bones present, possibly from a single individual: left and right radii, a femur, a humerus and a clavicle, plus some possible skull fragments. The humerus and femur were from the X-finded surface and their remarkably good state of preservation supports the interpretation that the surface was not exposed for any considerable length of time. DCO 3.8.6: Flotation sample #13, 4mm 100% sorted, diagnostics recorded, rest as flot frags. This is a large sample consisting mostly of unidentified flot frags with the identifiable fragments almost exclusively from sheep-sized animals. Two microfaunal fragments. Surface condition generally good (category 3) with around 5% burning. NR 2006: The remaining flot samples are quite similar. Oddly, although the dry-sieved looked like midden degraded through being near the surface, the flot samples look much more like fill: mostly groddy little bits with very few diagnostics and a strange lack of bird and fish and almost no microfauna. LH. 3.8.6 More very young human - phalanx and metapodial. NR 2006: There is so much human from apparently one individual, and so beautifully preserved despite being perinatal, that one has to wonder if they dug through a burial. If not, there was something odd going on with a disarticulated baby in a bag or something. |
| Recorded By (initials) | NR, LH, DCO |
| Recorded By (name) | Nerissa Russell, Liz Henton, David Orton |
| Date Recorded | 2006-07-17 |
| Has note |
The unique identifier for each contextual unit, matching those used in the central Çatalhöyük excavation database and in publications. The excavation uses single-context recording.
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Suggested Citation
David Orton, Liz Henton, Nerissa Russell. (2013) "Unit 12456 from Asia/Turkey/Çatalhöyük/Mound East/Area IST". In Çatalhöyük Zooarchaeology. Louise Martin, David Orton, Katheryn Twiss, Nerissa Russell, Sheelagh Frame (Ed). Released: 2013-08-11. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/6be4e373-452a-4bf0-d35d-40c2805b26b5> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2xk8537p
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