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-dy Visiting paleozoologist H-P Uerpmann, in the process of analyzing the animal bones from present and past excavations, attempted to find the time of the first appearance of the horse at Tell Mozan.  To assist in this effort, we provided bone lots from selected features assigned to Phase 4 in MZ12 and MZ14.  (He already has identified horse bones from Phase 5.)  As a part of this effort, mkb examined the pottery from f144, f162, f218, f241, and f249.  The results are positive assignments to Ph 4a for all but f162, which had few sherds and none of those were diagnostic.

f 144
df a
ns Phase assignment based on pottery analysis by mkb.
I1 4a

f 218
df a
ns Phase assignment based on pottery analysis by mkb.
I1 4a

f 241
df aa
ns Phase assignment based on pottery analysis by mkb.
I1 4a

f 249
df aa
ns Phase assignment based on pottery analysis by mkb.
I1 4a

f 162
df a
ns mkb attempted to designate a phase for this feature based on analysis of one lot (q501) of pottery.  Unfortunately there were no diagnostic sherds among those examined.

i 114
df a-bone
nt Paleozoologist H-P Uerpmann identified the horn as one from a male antelope.