Unit 15346
Category: Skeleton dug in 2011
Area: Trench 5
Interpretive Categories: late burial
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: EW 1.29m - NS 0.67m - 0.38m
Discussion: This burial appears to be disturbed by both animal acitivity and surface erosion, as it was located in the first 10 to 40cm of the top soil. The following elements were disturbed: skull, cervical and thoracic vertebrae, ribs, both humeri, sternum, left scapulae and clavicle, metatarsals and foot phalanges. These elements were found around the skeleton (undisturbed) or above undisturbed elements. Some of these upper body elements seems to be roughly around other related elements anatomically - this may indicate thar the upper body may have been disturbed by forces while soft tissue was still on some elements connecting them, They must have also been later disturbances as well. The lower body was articulated from the lumbar vertebrae down to the feet, including both hands and right forearm. The right forearm was flexed across the body and pronated where the right hand was placed on the left hip. The left hand is also pronated over the right hip. The feet are slightly disturbed, probably from animal activity. The tibia is rotated 180 degrees and on top of the right tibia. This is confusing on how this is the only long bone disturbed - even the left fibula was anatomically positioned correctly. This burial was excavated in layers, as the upper body was directly on top of the undisturbed lower body, It is located above and on the southern section of Space 342.
in 2012, J. Brynes removed the skeleton that lay in T5; on opening T5 in 2013, teeth and sternum were discovered while cleaning the W section. The cut was visible only in the north (and patchy there). The rest of th ecut was arbitrarily defined during excavation. The remeining skeleton was esposed, photoed and removed after the poor state of presevation was clear, fill in the vicinty of skel. Will be floated (~60 L), but upper fill (presumably) was mixed with topsoil and too great a volume, so this was only sieved.
For more information see unit sheet 15346 by JHB 29.07.2013
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 688.54; Target A - Y: 969.86; Target B - X: 689.32; Target B - Y: 969.43; Target C - X: 690; Target C - Y: 969.83; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: supine, extended, upper body disturbed, EW oriented
Head: head in west, disturbed, face to north
Right Arm: humerus disturbed, forearm and hand flexed across to left hip, pronated
Left Arm: humerus and ulna disturbed, hand pronated on right hip
Right Leg: extended straight
Left Leg: extended straight, tibia disturbed on right tibia
Other comments: feet were slightly disturbed, mainly metatarsal and phalanges. Left tibia was rotated 180 degrees and on top of undisturbed right tibia. Fibulas were in correct position. JHB 29.07.2013: severely disturbed, the rest was exc. By J. Byrnes in 2012; this sheet covers the remains found in the W profile of T5.
Surface Modifications: animal burrows
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 6
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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| Spaces: none | |
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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