Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Recording	Fully recorded
Year	2005
Description	Small unit, light to moderate wear, some carbonised, one heavily worn vertebra, one worked bone (costa). Comes from top fill of the room south of collapsed burnt wall, south of wall F.1958. NR 2006: X3 is a bone point. NR 2007: More material has come in from 2006. This probably should not have been recorded, as it is clearly not a secure Neolithic context, but since it has been started I will finish it. Note that I am doing this remaining portion under the streamlined recording procedures implemented in mid-2007. There is a moderate amount of additional material. I am not sure whether it was dry-sieved or hand-picked; my guess would be fairly careful hand-picking. The unit sheet indicates 0 liters sieved, but hard to be sure what that means. There are a few ribs and vertebrae, both sheep-size and large mammal, that are strikingly light in color and fresh in surface, and little fragmented; these look suspiciously Hellenistic. There is also an extremely wee cattle second phalanx, the size of European Iron Age cattle, that seems unlikely to be Neolithic but does not share that surface condition. So that casts doubt on the rest of the material, although there is also Neolithic-size cattle material in the unit. Mostly sheep-size, with a bit of pig-size and a fair amount of large mammal. Both sheep-size and large mammal are fairly evenly distributed through the body but, in the likely Neolithic material, short on rib heads and vertebrae, and to a lesser extent toes. Diagnostics include sheep/goat (mostly), cattle, and a little pig and equid. There is a little burning and gnawing and a very little digestion. Fragmentation is moderate, although this may be deceptive if hand-picked. Surface condition is generally slightly degraded. It looks generally middeny. A fragment of a tool and one of bird bone recorded and pulled. Given the questionable context, a fragment of human skull was pulled without recording.
Recorded By (initials)	HB
Recorded By (name)	Hijlke Buitenhuis
Date Recorded	2005-07-26
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.