Unit 21636

Category: Skeleton    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: primary,secondary 

Data Category Information: none

Discussion: not excavated in 2014:
The excavation witi the feature (7640) was ceased at the stage of revealing human bones (Sk.-21636) in its southern part. The estimated time of further exploration would have not allowed to accomplish the work by the end of the 2014 season.

2015 SEASON:
The preliminary examination of the skeleton-21636 indicated that the human remains belonged to young-adult male(?). The feature must be regarded in term of primary burial dedicated to one person, however there are some vital signs of the distinctive funeral rite treatment. It is essential to note for instance that the body most probably was contained in tightly wrapped organic material (21630_S11) and kept somewhere out, and after some time after decomposition of the soft tissues the “package” had been buried within the pit executed in the room-fill of B.132. The latter assumptions base on several data within which the most convincing is alignment and location of the bones of left forearm which must have been detached at some point, and then placed again into the wrappings just before burring the individual. Crushed and flattened cranium may indicate also highly advanced decomposition of the brain. Additionally, the degree of the bone fractions, cracks, and pattern of brackish evidenced on the whole skeleton as well as missing part of the body, along with placement of the feet (c.a. 8cm beneath the skeleton) point that the body was almost completely skeletonized when it was placed into the ground.
All of the above mentioned data allow to precise more the interpretation and categorize it as an example of the “delayed burial”. 

X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 1045.84; Target A - Y: 1182.73; Target B - X: 1046.18; Target B - Y: 1182.38; Target C - X: 1045.9; Target C - Y: 1182.08; Target D - X: 1045.52; Target D - Y: 1182.43 

Body:  

Head:  

Right Arm:  

Left Arm:  

Right Leg:  

Left Leg:  

Other comments:  

Surface Modifications:  

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21631 below: (Click to view the record) 21630 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): XI, XII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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.

<< BackDownload this Units Data