Unit 18447

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Skeleton 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 0.83m (n-s) x 0.70m (e-w) 

Discussion: Neolithic juvenile skeleton in E platform (F 3408) of B 76 which was burned in Neolithic times. The platform was burned in the western portion more than in its eastern portion where the platform floor was still intact.The fire appears to have been most intense in the south central part of the building and resulted in the differential burning of the platform floor. Consequently the bones of the skeleton (18447) were differentiially altered by the heat of the fire. The bones in the west of the grave pit (the skull, mandible, upper torso) were blackened as a result of being "baked" by the heat of the fire whereas the bones in the eastern portion of the platform were fire altered but not blackened. Rather than being blackened entirely, the bones in the eastern part of the platform were highly fragmentary with the cancellous spongy bone orange in color. Some of the postcranial bones were also intermittently blackened on the upper surface. Two additional skeletons (18464 and 18701) were evident in the grave pit. Sk (18464) was directly under sk (18447) and some of these bones could be seen in plan view while the blackened mandible of sk (18701) was lying beside the head of sk (18447). No grave goods were found in association with sk (18447). 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 929.25; Target A - Y: 959.14; Target B - X: 930.21; Target B - Y: 958.85; Target C - X: 930.54; Target C - Y: 959.06; Target D - X: 930.24; Target D - Y: 959.18 

Body: Flexed on right side, head to SW; primary inhumation 

Head: On basicranium, highly fragmented, blackened; teeth are partially shattered. 

Right Arm: right arm under right leg; pronated lower arm, extended humerus; right hand lateral to right femur. 

Left Arm: left arm bent at elbow ( approx. 90 degrees); lower arm extended parallel to legs with hand at right knee. 

Right Leg: right leg flexed at hip and knee, posterior knee on upper side under left knee. Feet together. Right foot more complete than left. 

Left Leg: left leg flexed at hip and knee; posterior side on upper side; left knee crosses above right knee. Feet together. Right foot more complete than left. 

Other comments:  

Surface Modifications: "Baked" upper body (black-brown); lower body less fire altered (some brown but mostly with spongy cancellous bone colored orange) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18446 below: (Click to view the record) 18428 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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