1. OVERVIEW
| Roster | Date | Author | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best definition | 2008-09-14 | !! | abandonment and collapse [Input: S914LR.j] |
2. IDENTIFICATION
Designation
| Roster | Date | Author | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Definition | 2008-09-14 | lR | abandonment and collapse [Input: S914LR.j] |
| Description (summary) | 2008-09-14 | lR | The result of the earliest Mittani brick structures, s15, melting in the rain and then hardened by the sun over time forming a thin hard clay crust, uniform and massive in structure, throughout the entire unit. Several dramatic slopes are visible in the north and south which seems to follow contours of the structures below. In order for the bricks to have melted in this manner, we are assuming that the structures were exposed to the processes of weathering over a long period of time allowing for compaction to occur and must have also been the natural surface of the Tell in antiquity. Comparing this brickmelt to the brickmelt in A18 and A16 where no compaction occurs, instead the brickmelt resembles more like soft disintegrated bricks with no crust formed at the top, gives more plausibility that this brickmelt in A20 was exposed for more time. This also explains why the next occupation level, s11 does not reuse the structures from s15 or s14, these were simply not in view suggesting that during the end of the Mittani period, occupation shifted elsewhere at the site, leaving area A20 unoccupied for some time then reoccupied at a later date. This stratum also includes accumulations from collapse of the early to late Mittani levels (s14, s15, s12a). [Input: S914LR.j] |
3. STRATIGRAPHY
Time Sequencing
| Roster | Date | Author | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Features included within stratum | 2008-09-14 | lR | f5 (accumulation C), f6 (accumulation D), f7 (layer), f10 (accumulation D), f13 (accumulation B), f14 (accumulation C), f16 (layer), f17 (layer), f18 (layer), f20 (layer), f26 (layer), f27 (layer), f29 (layer), f30 (brickfall), f37 (brickfall), f51 (accumulation D), f53 (layer), f58 (layer), f60, f62 (accumulation), f67 (layer), f69 (layer), f70 (fill), f75 (brickfall), f78 (fill), f94 (wall) [Input: S914LR.j] |