Unit 10839

Category: skeleton    dug in 2004

 

Area: South 

 

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Interpretive Categories: SHEEP!!,skeleton 

 

Data Category Information: none

 

Discussion: This unit consists of a complete sheep skeleton; located next to skeleton 10840 within burial feature 1702. It was lying on top of a brown interface with phytoliths that curves upwards to the south and covers skeleton 10840. This suggests that 10840 was put in earlier.
Skeleton 10839 is located at the bottom of feature 1702. The sheep has an odd burial position with the hind legs coming up at an angle and the front legs coming up vertically; the body on its back; and the head twisted to the north.
It has been suggested that the front legs were held up while feature 1702 was infilled [NR]. The front legs were earlier removed as cluster 10828; but are now recognized as part of 10839. 

 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 911.5; Target A - Y: 981.5; Target B - X: 913; Target B - Y: 981.5; Target C - X: 913; Target C - Y: 981; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: lying on left side; pelvis tipped slightly back; right shoulder slightly forward. 

Head: bent back against back; head bent back lying partly on left side/ mandibles in articulation and uppermost 

Right Arm: humerus bent slightly up and out from body; rest of leg straight up almost right angle to the body 

Left Arm: humerus under body; rest of leg straight up together with right 

Right Leg: stretched out straight at an angle going up to foot 

Left Leg: femur bent; rest of leg strecthed out straight; paralel to right 

Other comments: Odd position with body on back and legs situated back and straight up. Not a natural way to lie; perhaps arranged so as not to fall onto the human body adjacent to the south. Some toes ans sesamoids have tumbled down showing there was some space as it decomposed; but otherwise perfectly articulated and undisturbed. A [textile-questionmark] covering on the human body extends under the sheep. Infantile; maybe female. 

Surface Modifications:  

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10842 below: (Click to view the record) 10838 

 

Skeleton Same As: 10828

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 4

 

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 22 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 50

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 112

Features:: (Click to view the record) 1702 (burial)

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

 

Lab Team Data

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2004 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 114

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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