Unit Book A15

The Reception Area (Version 1a)

Cap or Sit In

James L. Walker – May 2023


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Summary

     The type of contact “to cap or to sit in” represents about 12% of the total contacts.

     This family of contacts often is asssociated with small items in domestic environments. A lid may cap a jar or an abandoned pot may sit in a floor accumulation.

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Caps


     No items or structures capped another. There were no domestic activities conducted in the vicinity of the walls, floors, and open areas excavated.

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Sits In

     Forty-seven instances where one item sat in another were recorded. Most were stones that had been displaced from nearby structures and that had been subsequently covered by accumulation. The best example of "sits in" created in antiquity occurred when stones f269 were covered by accumulation f271.