Unit 10937

Category: skeleton    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: Post-chalcolithic human skeleton 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 1.68 x 0.45 

Discussion: Late period(Byzantine?) burial of adult female skeleton similar to adjacent burial of large older adult male(sk.8983). Possibly related someow to as female burial is quite skelletally robust&both skeleton s had traces of red ochre on the bones of the feet&lower limbs(sample taken).
Sk.10937 appears to have lytics lesions involving the ethnoid & maxillary sinuses, as well as several Schmort`s nodes in the lunbars & bridging osteopythes in the thoracius. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0 

Body: dorsally extended W-E (head west) 

Head: head facing anterior(looking forward) 

Right Arm: extended along side(hand disturbed post mortem) 

Left Arm: extended along side- hand on hip(top of thigh) 

Right Leg: extended(foot pointing down&out) 

Left Leg: extended(foot disturbed post mortem) 

Other comments:  

Surface Modifications: major damage/disturbance to bones(mandible,skull base,right thumb,feet and hand) by small rodents, surface of long bones cracked due to damp soil followed by exposure to dry air 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10938 below: (Click to view the record) 10936 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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